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John Robert Hume

Fellow

John Robert Hume studied medicine at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh before serving as a military surgeon in the Peninsular War. He later obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1816. He moved to London and became personal physician to the Duke of Wellington, and in 1836 was appointed a Metropolitan Commissioner in Lunacy. He later served as Inspector General of Hospitals and died in London in 1857.

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James Clark

Fellow

James Clark, sometimes spelled Clerk or Clarke, obtained his MD from Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, on 7 February 1817. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 25 February 1817 and elected a Fellow on 5 August 1817. Clark served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a hospital assistant from June 1811 and was promoted to Assistant Surgeon on 24 October 1818. He died in June 1822.

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Also recorded as James Clerk and James Clarke.
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Walter Ogilvy

Fellow

Walter Ogilvy obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 14 April 1817. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 6 May 1817 and elected a Fellow on 5 August 1817.
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William Wynne

Fellow

William Wynne served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as an assistant surgeon staff officer from 1800 and was promoted to surgeon staff in Portugal in 1809. He attained permanent rank in 1814 and was placed on half pay in 1816, after which he obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 7 September 1816. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 6 May 1817 and elected a Fellow on 5 August 1817. Wynne was promoted to Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on 30 April 1818 and died in Lisbon on 13 November 1821.
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John Ramsay

Fellow

John Ramsay obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 12 September 1810. He entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1810 as a hospital mate, was promoted to assistant surgeon in 1811 and later to staff surgeon in 1822. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 16 May 1817 and elected a Fellow on 4 November 1817. He died in London on 8 April 1838.
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Patrick Campbell Baird

Fellow

Baird was born on 2 August 1772 in Ayrshire. He entered the Indian Medical Service as an assistant surgeon in 1798. He obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 7 March 1818 and was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 5 May 1818 and elected a Fellow on 4 August 1818. He later became Superintending Surgeon of the province of Gujarat and died in Bombay on 5 November 1821.
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William Moncrieff

Fellow

William Moncrieff obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 24 June 1814. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 4 November 1817 and elected a Fellow on 3 November 1818.
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Samuel Sproule

Fellow

Samuel Sproule was born in Ireland in 1774. He obtained a certificate from the Corporation of Surgeons in 1796 and served as an assistant surgeon in the Indian Medical Service in Bombay, later being promoted to surgeon in 1803. He obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 4 July 1818 and was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 4 August 1818 and elected a Fellow on 3 November 1818. He became Superintending Surgeon in Bombay in 1819. He returned to Britain on furlough in 1826, retired from practice in 1828 and died in Cheltenham on 31 May 1829.
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John Bigsby

Fellow

John Bigsby was born circa 1760. He studied at the University of St Andrews and received his MD on 2 June 1810, on testimonials signed by Samuel Argent Bardsley and T Smith. Bigsby was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1812. He practised in Nottingham and died in 1844.
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William Elford Leach

Fellow

William Elford Leach was born in Plymouth in 1791. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in Edinburgh before receiving his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1812. Leach did not practise medicine, but in 1813 became an assistant at the British Museum, specialising in entomology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817. Following a prolonged illness he left the museum and moved to Italy, where he died in 1836.