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Robert Abernethy

Fellow

Robert Abernethy graduated MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1888 and MD in 1893. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1892 and was elected a Fellow in 1893. He served as President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. After inheriting his uncle's Edinburgh practice in 1895, he held several appointments in the city, including at the Royal Infirmary, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, the New Town Dispensary, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He died in 1919 following prolonged influenza.
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Thomas Jackson Thyne

Fellow

Thomas Jackson Thyne was born and trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1885. One of five brothers to enter the medical profession, he spent his career in Edinburgh, working as Medical Officer to the local council until his retirement in 1927. He later emigrated to Australia and died in Sydney in March 1931 aged seventy-two.
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Guthrie Rankin

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Guthrie Rankin was born in Kilmarnock and trained in Glasgow, earning his MB in 1880 and his MD in 1882. He worked initially in Scotland, including in his hometown, and served as Examiner in Medicine at the University of Glasgow. In 1892 he moved to Warwick, where he was Physician at the Warwickshire Dispensary and Cottage Hospital. In 1897 he relocated to London, becoming Physician to the Greenwich Dreadnought Hospital and the Royal Waterloo Hospital, and Lecturer in Medicine at the London School of Clinical Medicine. He remained in these roles until his death in 1919.
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James Williamson Martin

Fellow

James Williamson Martin trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1885 and his MD in 1887. After a brief period as Physician to the Cowgate Dispensary, he spent the remainder of his career in Dumfries, where he served as Medical Officer to the Post Office. During the shortage of doctors in the First World War, he was commissioned as a Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1915 to 1916. He died in Dumfries in December 1919.
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George Hunter

Fellow

George Hunter trained at the University of Edinburgh, earning his MB CM with honours in 1867 and his MD in 1869. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1868 and was elected a Fellow in 1870. He contributed articles on typhoid and puerperal fevers, kidney disease, and diseases of the eye, ear, and throat to the Edinburgh Medical Journal between 1876 and 1888 as a member of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was a member of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh from 1881 and served on its council. In 1890 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. His practice was based at Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, and in 1903 he served as a Justice of the Peace in Linlithgowshire.
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Dawson Fyers Duckworth Turner

Fellow

Dawson Fyers Duckworth Turner was born in Liverpool in 1857 and educated at Dalhousie University, Canada, and the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his MD in 1890. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the same year and was elected a Fellow in 1891, and was also a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. In 1895 he constructed the first X-ray apparatus in Edinburgh. He worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as an Assistant from 1896 and later became Head of the Electrical Department. He published widely and authored 'A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity', which went through four editions. He died in Godalming in December 1928.

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James Craufurd Dunlop

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James Craufurd Dunlop was born in Barrhead in 1865. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1887 and undertook further medical study in Strasbourg, Vienna, and Paris. On returning to Edinburgh, he carried out research into the nutrition and metabolism of prisoners and people living in poverty and practised as a paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children for almost two decades. In 1909 he was appointed Medical Superintendent of Statistics at the General Register Office for Scotland and later became Registrar General. He was elected Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1922 and died in 1944.
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William George Aitchison Robertson

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William George Aitchison Robertson was born circa 1865, the son of solicitor James Aitchison Robertson. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, earning a BSc in Public Health in 1889 and an MD in 1890, for which he was awarded a gold medal. In the same year he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow in 1891. He was awarded a Doctorate of Science in 1892. He practised in Edinburgh, with rooms on Minto Street, and worked at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital. He published extensively on public health and toxicology, including 'Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology' (1894). After 1910 he retrained as a barrister, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1926, and later lived in Bournemouth, where he died in 1946.
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William Charles Everley Taylor

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William Charles Everley Taylor was born in Scarborough in 1854. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879 and a Member in 1882. He was also a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London from 1879, and a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London from 1885. He served as Medical Officer of Health to the Scarborough Sanitary Authority and as Surgeon to the Borough Police and Scarborough Hospital. He died in 1936 and was buried in Bath.
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John William Ballantyne

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John William Ballantyne was born in Eskbank, Midlothian, and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis in 1889. After serving as House Surgeon under Professor Simpson in the University Ward for Diseases of Women, he became Assistant Physician and later Full Physician at the Royal Maternity Hospital. He taught at the Edinburgh Extramural Medical School and later lectured in midwifery to women students. He published extensively on midwifery and antenatal disease, and his name is associated with Ballantyne's syndrome and Ballantyne-Runge syndrome. He died in Edinburgh in 1923.