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Donald Cochrane Campbell
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 4/May/1858
Donald Cochrane Campbell received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow on 24 April 1844 and held both a doctorate in medicine and a diploma in surgery. From October 1841 he served as assistant medical officer at the Royal Lunatic Asylum, Glasgow, then became resident physician at Aberdeen Asylum. He later served as resident physician and then superintendent of the county lunatic asylum at Brentwood, Essex. Campbell became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 May 1858, authored 'Hints on the Management of Lunatic Asylums', was a member of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society and died on 8 August 1884.
Year of medical qualification
24/April/1844
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.