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Joseph Carne Ross
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1881
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/November/1882
Joseph Carne Ross was born in Funchal, Madeira, in 1845. After a military career he entered medicine, training at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his MB in 1880 and MD in 1882. He worked as Non-Resident House Physician in the clinical wards and as a Clinical Assistant in the University wards at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He later moved to Penzance, serving as Honorary Physician at the West Cornwall Infirmary, before settling in Manchester as Physician at Ancoats Hospital. He published 'Observations upon the Modes of Treatment of Pleurisy with Effusion', contributed letters to The Lancet, and authored the speculative fiction work 'Quintura: Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs'. He died in Withington, Manchester, in 1911.
Year of medical qualification
1880
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.