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Robert James Wilson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/November/1868
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/February/1871
Robert James Wilson became a Licentiate of the College in 1859 and a Fellow in 1871, having trained at Westminster Hospital. He spent much of his life in St Leonards on Sea, where he worked as surgeon to the Hastings and St Leonards Home for Invalid Gentlewomen and as physician to the Convalescent Home for Children. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London and of the Obstetrical Society of London, serving as Honorary Secretary of the latter. His publications include 'Case of vertical dislocation of patella', published in the Medical Times and Gazette in 1857.
Year of medical qualification
1859
Type of medical qualification
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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.