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William Hughes
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 5 February 1920
William Hughes registered to practise in London in 1903 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1920. He served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later worked in Japan as Professor of Medicine at the Japanese Medical School, Tokyo, and Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Charity Hospital, Tokyo. He was also Physician to the British Embassy in Tokyo and Medical Adviser to the War Office and Indian Army. His publication includes 'Value of Antistreptococcal Serum in the Treatment of Influenza' (1919).
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.