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Harry Chapman Sinderson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1921
Date of Fellowship admission: 4 May 1926
Harry Chapman Sinderson was born on 9 June 1891. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1914 and was awarded the MD in 1926. In 1918 he was appointed Deputy Director of Civil Medical Services in Iraq and served as personal physician to the Iraqi royal family from 1923 to 1946. In 1927 he was a founder and first Dean of the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad. By 1941 he had been promoted to Inspector-General of Health Services and Chair of Medicine to the Government of Iraq. He received multiple international honours, including the Order of the British Empire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 May 1926 and served as the College's representative governor on the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He died on 20 November 1974 aged 83.
Year of medical qualification
1926
Type of medical qualification
MD
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.