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Robert Charles MacWatt
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3 February 1925
Date of Fellowship admission: 13 May 1925
Sir Robert Charles MacWatt was born on 22 January 1865 at Duns, Berwickshire. He graduated MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1886 and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1887. He served with distinction on the North-West Frontier and later became Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in Punjab and Director General of the Indian Medical Service. He was knighted in 1925 and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 13 May 1925. He died on 14 April 1945 aged 80.
Year of medical qualification
1886
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.