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Thomas Stewart Traill
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/May/1833
Thomas Stewart Traill lived from 1781 to 1862. He studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1799 to 1801 and became a member of the Royal Medical Society in 1801. He graduated MD in 1802 and practised as a physician in Liverpool for thirty years, serving as President of the Royal Institution Liverpool. In 1832 he returned to Edinburgh as Regius Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Medical Police at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1833. In 1840 his 'Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence' was published. Traill served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1852 to 1854.
Year of medical qualification
13/September/1802
Type of medical qualification
MD
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.