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Herbert Lindesay Watson Wemyss
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/November/1911
Date of Fellowship admission: 3/November/1914
Herbert Lindesay Watson Wemyss was born in Broughty Ferry in 1886. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1908 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1914. He worked as Clinical Tutor at the Royal Infirmary, Physician at Leith Hospital, and later Assistant Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Physician to the Royal Public Dispensary and Deaconess Hospital, and Medical Adviser to the Scottish Life Assurance Company. His publications include 'Arythraemia' (1911) and 'The Treatment of the Amoebic Carrier' (1918). He died in 1933.
Year of medical qualification
1908
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.