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Edward David Wilson Greig
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 19 January 1926
Edward David Wilson Greig was born on 20 March 1874. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1895. He entered the Indian Medical Service in 1899 and held senior posts in bacteriology, including Director of the Pasteur Institute and the Peterson Hospital, Physician in Charge of the Kala-azar Hospital, and Director of Medical Research for the Service. He also served as an Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Research. After retiring from the Service in 1924 he was appointed Lecturer in Tropical Diseases at the University of Edinburgh and Consultant in Tropical Diseases to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, holding these posts until 1939. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 19 January 1926. He died in Edinburgh on 18 April 1950.
Year of medical qualification
1895
Type of medical qualification
MB
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.