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Robert Sibbald
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 29 November 1681
Robert Sibbald was born in 1641 in Fife. In 1660 he travelled to Leiden, where he studied anatomy, surgery, botany, chemistry, and natural philosophy. After eighteen months he moved to Paris for further study and then took his examinations at Angers. Returning to Scotland in 1662, he worked with Andrew Balfour to establish a physic garden, which was fully operational by 1670 and received a royal warrant in 1699. Sibbald was instrumental in the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and petitioned the Duke of York to secure its charter, which was signed and sealed on St Andrew's Day 1681. He became President of the College in 1684. With Balfour, he drafted early versions of the 'Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia', which was finalised in the 1690s. Sibbald died in Edinburgh in 1722.
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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.
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