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Keats Robinson Risk
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 23/November/1858
Keats Robinson Risk was born in 1816 and studied at the Meath and Richmond Hospitals, Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He graduated MD from Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1851, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1858 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1856. He served as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Naval Schools, Greenwich, and later practised in Blackpool, where he died on 28 May 1873.
Year of medical qualification
24/October/1851
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.