George Keppie Paterson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 4/August/1891
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1895
George Minto Johnston
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 6/February/1894
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1895
William Rutherford
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/February/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 3/November/1891
John Macpherson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 29/July/1890
Date of Fellowship admission: 3/November/1891
Sir John Macpherson was born in Dores, Inverness-shire, in 1857. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1882 and became Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1890 and elected a Fellow in 1891. From 1889 to 1898 he was Superintendent of the Stirling District Asylum at Larbert, later known as Bellsdyke Hospital. He subsequently served as Commissioner of Lunacy for Scotland until 1921 and worked on several medical boards concerned with former servicemen. He was knighted in 1922 and later that year became the first Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney. He returned to Britain in 1926 and retired in Somerset.
William Joseph Kelson Millard
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/November/1876
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Henry Francis Elliot
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/August/1879
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Andrew Douglas Ramsay Thomson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/August/1882
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Albert Charles Butler Smythe
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/August/1882
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Albert Charles Butler-Smythe was born in Dublin in 1852. His father, William Smythe, was a naval officer, and his maternal grandfather, Charles Butler, was a medical practitioner. He studied in Dublin and Edinburgh and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1876, a Member in 1882, and a Fellow in 1892. He held several hospital appointments, including Surgeon to the St George Hanover Square Dispensary, the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children, and the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, where he worked for over fifty years and served on the management committee. He published articles on obstetrics and gynaecology in The Lancet and other medical journals. He received an MBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and died in 1936.
Other Information
Also recorded as Albert Charles Butler Smyth.
Archibald Home Douglas
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/February/1891
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1892
Norman Purvis Walker
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1892
Date of Fellowship admission: 8/March/1892