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John Herbert Yearsley
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 4 November 1924
John Herbert Yearsley graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Classics and Literature. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1904 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1906. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1924 and served as Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Bournemouth. His publications include 'Dissection of Conjunctiva', Medical Annual, and 'The Care of Children's Eyes', Child (1911).
Year of medical qualification
1904
Type of medical qualification
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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.