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John Bowen

Fellow

John Bowen obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews on 9 October 1809. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 1 February 1814 and elected a Fellow on 3 May 1814. He practised mainly in London, and also in Carmarthen in 1828 and Algiers in 1838. He died in London on 9 December 1841.
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Benjamin Lara

Fellow

Benjamin Lara was awarded his MD from Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, on 17 May 1802. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 12 February 1814 and elected a Fellow on 2 August 1814.
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George Magrath

Fellow

Sir George Magrath was born in 1775 in County Tyrone, Ireland, the third son of John Magrath. He was awarded an MD from the University of St Andrews on 3 August 1805. He served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy from 1797 and was Flag Medical Officer to Nelson during the Mediterranean campaign. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 2 August 1814 and elected a Fellow on 1 November 1814. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819 and served as physician to William IV when Lord High Admiral from 1827 to 1830. He was knighted in 1831 and became Inspector of Hospitals in 1841. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1847. He later settled in Plymouth and died on 12 June 1857.
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William Beatty

Fellow

Sir William Beatty was born in April 1773 in Londonderry, Ireland, the son of James Beatty. He was likely apprenticed to his uncle George Smythe, a naval surgeon in Buncrana, although early records are uncertain. On 5 May 1791 he was examined by the Company of Surgeons in London and entered the Royal Navy. He served as surgeon aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar and published 'The authentic narrative of the death of Lord Nelson'. He obtained his MD from King's College, University of Aberdeen, on 28 February 1806 and was appointed Physician of the Channel Fleet on 25 September 1806. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 2 August 1814 and elected a Fellow on 2 November 1814. He was awarded an ad eundem MD from the University of St Andrews on 14 October 1817 and admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London on 22 December 1818. He was appointed physician to Greenwich Hospital and to George IV in September 1822, and to the future William IV in 1827. He was knighted in 1831, retired in 1839 and died of acute bronchitis in London on 25 March 1842.
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Henry Dewar

Fellow

Henry Dewar was born Henry Frazer in 1771 in Fife, the son of John Frazer, minister of the Associate Church at Auchtermuchty. Initially a minister of the Associate Church at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, he inherited the estate of Lassodie, Beath, through his mother, which required him to change his surname to Dewar. He was awarded his MD by the University of Edinburgh on 25 June 1804. Dewar joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1801 and served as hospital mate and later assistant surgeon with the 30th Regiment of Foot. He published on dysentery and other diseases while in Egypt, including 'De ophthalmia Aegypti'. He joined the Royal Medical Society in 1803 and was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 1 February 1814 and elected a Fellow on 7 February 1815. He was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club and the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1816. He died in Edinburgh on 18 or 19 January 1823.
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Anthony Lindsay

Fellow

Anthony Lindsay was awarded an MD from Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, on 17 December 1814. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 7 February 1815 and elected a Fellow on 2 May 1815. After Aberdeen he was employed on a plantation in Jamaica, although the nature of his work is unclear.
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James Murdoch

Fellow

James Murdoch was born on 14 July 1785, the son of James Murdoch of Craigow, Kinross. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh between 1804 and 1805 and again between 1806 and 1810, but did not take a degree. He was awarded an MD from the University of St Andrews on 9 July 1814. Murdoch was admitted a Licentiate of the College on 2 August 1814 and elected a Fellow on 1 August 1815. He practised in Edinburgh until 1822, when he emigrated to Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania, where he became a prominent practitioner and farmer. He died on 22 April 1848.
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James McGrigor

Fellow

Sir James McGrigor, first baronet, was born in Inverness-shire in 1771. He graduated MA from Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1788, then studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He was appointed military surgeon, working in Flanders, Bremen, the West Indies and India. McGrigor completed his MD at Marischal College in 1804 and in 1805 was made deputy inspector general of hospitals in England. In 1811 he was made physician to the Portsmouth garrison and later chief of the medical staff of the Peninsular Army. In 1814 McGrigor was knighted and promoted to director general of the Army Medical Department. He died in London in 1858.
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George Alley

Fellow

George Alley was born circa 1782. He studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, where he received his MD in 1807 on testimonials signed by John Longfield, James Bennet, Anthony Mann, William Hallaran and Francis Walsh. He joined the Army Medical Service in Ireland and served as second assistant surgeon in the Ordnance Medical Department in 1806. He resigned in 1808. Alley died in Fermoy, County Cork, in 1811 aged 29, reportedly of a malignant fever caught while attending the dispensary.
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William Gourlay

Fellow

William Gourlay was born in 1765, a member of the Gourlays of Kincraig, an old Fifeshire family. His father was John Gourlay, a wine merchant in Haddington, and his mother was Elizabeth Plenderleath. William apprenticed with the Royal College of Surgeons in 1777 and became a medical student at the University of Edinburgh in 1778. He was a Member of the Royal Medical Society and graduated in 1782 with a dissertation on erysipelas. He practised as a physician in Madeira, Portugal, and in 1792 succeeded his cousin as laird of Kincraig. He first married Catherine Van Cortlandt, with whom he had five children, and later Mary Macintosh, with whom he had two. Gourlay died on 18 November 1827 aged 61 and is commemorated on a mural tablet at Kilconquhar churchyard.