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Montgomery Robertson
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/February/1832
Montgomery Robertson was born in 1806. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1825 and received his MD from the University of Aberdeen on 16 October 1829. Robertson was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 February 1832 and in the same year became an Ordinary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1832 he published 'On the Medicinal Effects of the Salts of Morphia' in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. He later became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1835 and practised as a physician in Edinburgh and Mortlake, Surrey. Robertson died in 1878.
Year of medical qualification
16/October/1829
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.