Robert Swan Aitchison
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/November/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/November/1888
John Batty Tuke Jr.
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 5/February/1889
John Batty Tuke Jr. was born in Edinburgh and trained in the city, earning his MB CM in 1881 and his MD in 1890. He worked as Physician to the University clinical wards before specialising in mental health, first as Assistant Medical Officer at the Royal Lunatic Asylum, Montrose, and later as Resident Clinical Assistant at the West Riding Asylum, Wakefield. He returned to Edinburgh to work with his father, Sir John Batty Tuke, at Saughton Hall Asylum and later as Superintendent of New Saughton Hall near Polton, Midlothian. He also served as Physician for Mental Diseases at the New Town Dispensary and as Examiner in Psychology for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He died in London in 1920.
Augustus Alexander Matheson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/February/1888
Date of Fellowship admission: 5/February/1889
George Henry Darwin
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/August/1881
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1889
Alexander Blackhall-Morison
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/February/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1889
Alexander Blackhall-Morison, the grandson of Sir Alexander Morison, former President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1872 and his MD in 1878, for which he was awarded a gold medal. He specialised in diseases of the heart and worked at several London hospitals, including Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest and the Royal Northern Hospital. He was a member and one-time President of the National Medical Union, formed in opposition to the National Insurance Act of 1911. He died suddenly in London in December 1927.
James Haig Ferguson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1889
James Haig Ferguson trained at the University of Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1884 and his MD in 1890. He specialised in gynaecology and midwifery and worked at several hospitals in Edinburgh, including Leith Hospital, the Royal Maternity Hospital, and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he also held a teaching role in clinical gynaecology at the University. He served as Chairman of the Central Midwives Board of Scotland. He co-authored several works, most notably 'The Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing' with Francis William Nichol Haultain, which was published in five editions. He died in Edinburgh in May 1934.
Ralph Stockman
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/May/1889
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/August/1889
Ralph Stockman was born in Leith and educated in Edinburgh, where he was awarded a gold medal for his MD in 1886. He began his career as a teacher at the Edinburgh Extramural School before being appointed Professor of Materia Medica, later termed pharmacology, at the University of Glasgow in 1897, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. He published a number of works, including 'Rheumatism and Arthritis' (1920). After retiring, he returned to Edinburgh, where he died in February 1946.
Charles Pitt Wetherell Neate
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/February/1880
Date of Fellowship admission: 5/November/1889
James Stewart
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/August/1880
Date of Fellowship admission: 5/November/1889
Thomas Ernest Gee
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/August/1888
Date of Fellowship admission: 4/February/1890