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Charles Spencer Waller Cobbold
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 4/May/1880
Date of Fellowship admission: 4/August/1885
Charles Spencer Waller Cobbold, the son of the parasitologist Dr Thomas Spencer Cobbold, studied at Wurzburg, earning his MD in 1874, and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. A member of the Neurological Society and the Medico-Psychological Association, his career was largely based in asylums in the south of England. His posts included Senior Assistant Medical Officer at Middlesex County Asylum and Medical Superintendent at the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood. He published several works, including 'Design for a Public Asylum' and 'The Alleged Increase in Insanity'. He retired in 1913 and died in 1931.
Year of medical qualification
1874
Type of medical qualification
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.