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Francis Home
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 4 August 1752
Francis Home was born in Edinburgh on 9 November 1719, the son of James Home, an advocate. After an apprenticeship with the Edinburgh surgeon Mr Rattray, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he became an early Member of the Royal Medical Society. Before graduating, Home served as a surgeon in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession. His essay 'Experiments on Bleaching' (1756) earned him a gold medal for its contribution to British manufacturing. In 1768 he became the first Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh, publishing 'Methodus Materiae Medicae' (1770) as a course textbook. Home was also one of the professors responsible for bedside teaching at the Royal Infirmary. He died on 15 February 1813 and was buried in Berwickshire.
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Year of medical qualification
7 March 1750
Date of Licence
7 May 1751
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.
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