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William Maule Smith
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1900
Date of Fellowship admission: 6 May 1919
William Maule Smith received his medical education at Edinburgh and Dundee, graduating in 1887 and MD in 1906. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1900 and was elected a Fellow in 1919. Smith held appointments at the asylums in Polton, Wakefield and Worcester, before serving as Medical Superintendent of the Union Infirmary, West Bromwich, and as Medical Officer to the Wigmore Schools and the Hallam Street Infirmary. He contributed numerous articles on neurological subjects to leading medical journals and was a member of the British Medical Association. He died in West Bromwich in 1925.
Year of medical qualification
1906
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.