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William Crochley Sampson Clapham
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/November/1881
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/February/1899
William Crochley Sampson Clapham was born in Wakefield circa 1847 and educated at the University of Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, London. He travelled as a ship's surgeon to China and served as a surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. On returning to Britain, he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at Wakefield Asylum. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1881 and elected a Fellow in 1899. He died in Sussex in 1923.
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Charles Bradley Maitland
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/May/1895
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/May/1899
Charles Bradley Maitland was born in Brighton in 1856, the son of Edward Maitland. He undertook medical training at Sussex County Hospital and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879. The following year he entered the Indian Medical Service and was elected a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1895. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and served as Principal Medical Officer of the Somaliland Expedition, during which he was killed in action in 1901.
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Thomas Monck Burn-Murdoch
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1897
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/May/1899
Thomas Monck Burn-Murdoch was born in Edinburgh in 1854, the son of John Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Doune. He was educated at Begbie's and Collegiate Schools before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1877. He established a practice in Morningside and served as a Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children for over twenty years. During the First World War he worked as a Medical Officer at Dalmeny House and other war hospitals. He died in Gartincaber, Doune, in 1938.
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Albert Benthall
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/May/1878
Date of Fellowship admission: 18/July/1899
Albert Benthall was admitted as a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1876 and became a Member of the College on 7 May 1878. By the early 1890s he was practising as a Surgeon in Portsmouth. By 1899 Benthall had been appointed Head Office Medical Officer to the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation. He was later involved in discussions relating to medical aspects of the National Insurance Bill in the early twentieth century.
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Richard Carter
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/February/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/February/1900
Richard Carter graduated MD from the University of Aberdeen in 1869. By 1875 he was practising as a Surgeon at the Bath Mineral Water Hospital. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1887 and was elected a Fellow of the College in 1900.
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Charles Henry Fox
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/May/1896
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/May/1900
Charles Henry Fox was born in Brislington, Bristol, in 1837, the son of Dr Francis Ker Fox of Brislington Asylum. He was educated at Shrewsbury and Highgate College and studied medicine in Edinburgh before graduating MD from the University of St Andrews in 1860. He returned to Bristol to work at Brislington Asylum, becoming a partner in 1873. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1900 and was also a Fellow of the Botanical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He died in Brislington in 1916.
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Francis Howard Humphris
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1897
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/August/1900
Francis Howard Humphris was born in Croydon in 1866 and educated at Highgate School, the University of Edinburgh and University College Hospital. After completing conjoint honours in 1895, he studied at the University of Brussels, where he obtained his MD. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1900. He practised for ten years in Honolulu and served as President of the Hawaiian Territorial Medical Society. During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of Major, and later obtained the Cambridge Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology. He died in Bath in 1947.
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Robert Miller Ronaldson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/November/1897
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/November/1900
Robert Miller Ronaldson was born circa 1870. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1900. During the First World War he offered his services to the Emergency Medical Committee. Following this, he lived and practised as a general practitioner in Edinburgh.
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Tom Henry Trevethan Frampton
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/November/1897
Date of Fellowship admission: 5/February/1901
Tom Henry Trevethan Frampton became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1883. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1901.
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Lewis Campbell Bruce
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/November/1896
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/May/1901
Lewis Campbell Bruce received his medical qualifications from the University of Edinburgh in 1894. In 1899 he was appointed Superintendent of Perth District Mental Hospital, a position he held for six years before moving to Murthly Hospital in Perthshire, where he worked for over three decades. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1901. In 1906 he published 'Studies in Clinical Psychiatry'. During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Captain and serving in Gallipoli and Italy, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He is credited with introducing thyroid treatment in the care of people with mental illness. Lewis Campbell Bruce died in 1945.