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Norman Purvis Walker
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1892
Date of Fellowship admission: 8/March/1892
Sir Norman Purvis Walker was born in Fife in 1862 and graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1888. He served as Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before establishing a private practice in Cumberland. He later undertook specialist training in dermatology in Vienna, Prague, and Hamburg. On returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Assistant Physician to the Skin Department of the Royal Infirmary, a post he held from 1892 to 1906. From 1906 to 1924 he managed the skin wards and lectured in dermatology at the University of Edinburgh. He died in Balerno in 1942.
Year of medical qualification
1888
Type of medical qualification
MD
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.