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James Flint
Honorary Fellow
Date of honorary Fellowship admission: 3 May 1774
James Flint was born in 1732. He was a graduate of the University of Glasgow and was professor of Physic at the University of St. Andrews, as well as being an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians by 1783. He also worked as a physician. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He died in 1810.
Honorary Fellow
An honorific sporadically granted to both medical and non-medical individuals, the first being awarded in 1696.