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James Bell Pettigrew
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 6/August/1872
Date of Fellowship admission: 13/August/1873
James Bell Pettigrew was born on 26 May 1832 in Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Pettigrew and Mary Bell. He was educated in Airdrie and at the University of Glasgow, where he studied arts from 1850 to 1855. He moved to Edinburgh in 1856 to study medicine and was awarded a gold medal in 1858 to 1859 for the best treatise on anatomy. This work led to his appointment as Croonian Lecturer at the Royal Society of London in 1860. In 1861 he became House Surgeon to James Syme at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1862 he was appointed Assistant in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a position he held until 1867. In 1877 he was elected by the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews to represent them on the General Medical Council. Following legislative reform in 1886, he represented St Andrews alone. He married Elsie, second daughter of Sir William Gray, in 1890. The marriage was childless. He died at his home in St Andrews on 30 January 1908.
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Year of medical qualification
1861
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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