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William Russell
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/May/1885
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/February/1887
William Russell was born in the Isle of Man in 1852 and trained in Edinburgh. After a short period as a hospital physician in Wolverhampton, he returned to Edinburgh, where he taught at the extramural medical school before being appointed Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1913. He published widely and was the first to describe the pathological structures later known as Russell bodies. He supported the admission of women to medical education and practice, opening his ward at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to women and, during his presidency of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1916 to 1918, initiating changes that allowed women to become Members of the College. He retired in 1919 and died in Edinburgh in 1940.
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Year of medical qualification
1884
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.
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