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Robert Briggs
Honorary Fellow
Date of honorary Fellowship admission: 3 November 1812
Robert Briggs was born in 1768. He was the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Anatomy at the University of St Andrews from 1811-1840. He also taught chemistry and chemical pharmacy. He died in 1840.
Honorary Fellow
An honorific sporadically granted to both medical and non-medical individuals, the first being awarded in 1696.