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James Ritchie

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James Ritchie trained at the University of Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1872 and his MD in 1891. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. After working under Professor Thomas Annandale and Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, he established a general practice in Edinburgh. He was a member and one-time president of both the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society and the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society and was active in the British Medical Association. He published several works, including 'On General Cystic Degeneration of the Adult Kidney' (1892). He died in Edinburgh in 1925.
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Hibbert Sullivan Parker

Fellow

Hibbert Sullivan Parker was educated at King's College London and served as Obstetrical House Physician at the associated hospital. In 1880 he joined the Army Medical Service and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1883 while stationed at Ferozepore, Punjab. He served in the Punjab as Staff Surgeon and Surgeon to the Ordnance and died from fever in 1886 at the age of twenty-eight.
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Alexander William Macfarlane

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Alexander William Macfarlane trained at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, earning his LM from Edinburgh in 1866, his MB CM from Glasgow in 1867, and his MD in 1872. He served as an Examiner in Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Public Health, and Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow before becoming Medical Officer of Health for Polmont and Muiravonside. He later established a general practice in Kilmarnock, alongside work at Kilmarnock Fever Hospital and as Medical Officer to the Glasgow and South Western Railway. In 1887 he moved to London, where he died following a prolonged illness in 1892.
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William Campbell

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William Campbell earned his MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1872 and was commissioned into the Army Medical Department in 1864. He served for thirty years, initially with the Scots Guards and later with the Grenadier Guards. His service included postings in Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Egypt, where he was present at the Battle of Tel el Kebir. He retired in 1897 with the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant Colonel and died in 1936.
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William James Tivy

Fellow

William James Tivy received medical training at Queen's College Cork, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1873, was elected a Fellow of the former in 1879 and of the latter in 1884. He served as a Surgeon in the Royal Navy and was active in the ambulance movement. He published several works, including 'The Pathology and Treatment of Lateral Curvature of the Spine'. He died in Bristol in 1910.
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Arthur Douglas Webster

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Arthur Douglas Webster was born in Nova Scotia and trained at McGill University, Montreal, where he earned his MD CM in 1878, and later at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a BSc in Public Health in 1888. He served primarily as a military surgeon, initially attached to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Scots. During the First World War he served as Medical Officer to the 1st Edinburgh Battalion of the 15th Royal Scots and subsequently to the 16th, 17th, and 18th Battalions. He was awarded an OBE for his wartime service and published 'The Effervescing Saline Bath (Nauheim Bath)' and 'Resistance Exercises in the Treatment of Heart Cases'. He died in Edinburgh in 1941 aged eighty-five.
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Arthur Edward Wellington Fox

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Arthur Edward Wellington Fox earned his MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1870, having also studied at University College London and in Bristol. He spent most of his career in Bath, serving as Senior Physician to the Eastern Dispensary, Physician at Bellott's Mineral Water Hospital, and Consulting Physician to the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He published several works, including 'A Short Manual of the Bath Mineral Water', and articles on cerebral tumours and cerebral abscesses. He retired in 1898 and died in 1930.
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Charles Spencer Waller Cobbold

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Charles Spencer Waller Cobbold, the son of the parasitologist Dr Thomas Spencer Cobbold, studied at Wurzburg, earning his MD in 1874, and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. A member of the Neurological Society and the Medico-Psychological Association, his career was largely based in asylums in the south of England. His posts included Senior Assistant Medical Officer at Middlesex County Asylum and Medical Superintendent at the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood. He published several works, including 'Design for a Public Asylum' and 'The Alleged Increase in Insanity'. He retired in 1913 and died in 1931.
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John Meikle

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John Meikle was the son of Dr Robert Meikle of Douglas, Lanarkshire. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at Surgeons' Hall, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1875 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1885. After working briefly as an assistant to his father and later to Dr Smith in Melrose, Roxburghshire, he entered a partnership with Dr Brown. He also served as Parochial Medical Officer for Melrose, Meltoun, and Bowden. He died in 1892.
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James William Hope

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John William Hope was born in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, and trained at Westminster Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1874 before emigrating to Australia. There he held several posts, including Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator to the York District, and Medical Officer to Fremantle Prison and Invalid Depot and Rottnest Penal Colony. He was also involved in sponsoring gold mining expeditions in Western Australia and served as a Justice of the Peace. He died in Bath, Somerset, in 1918 while completing national service.