George Douglas Mathewson

Fellow

Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1909

Date of Fellowship admission: 6/February/1912

George Douglas Mathewson was born in Dunfermline in 1881, the son of James Mathewson. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1905 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1912. He worked at the Royal Infirmary and Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, undertook postgraduate study in continental Europe, and during the First World War organised and directed a cardiology centre in Greece. He died in Edinburgh in 1935.

Year of medical qualification

1903

Type of medical qualification

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.