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Robert Ramsay
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 5 May 1761
Robert Ramsay was born in Blackcraig, Galloway, in 1735 and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1757 with a thesis on bile. He then studied at Leiden before returning to Scotland, where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1761. In 1767 he became the first Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, holding the chair until his death in 1778.
Year of medical qualification
10 December 1757
Type of medical qualification
MD
Date of Licence
11 December 1759
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.