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Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray was born in 1775 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine in the University of Aberdeen and graduated on 7 April 1800. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 22 December 1808 and became a Fellow of the College the same year. He was an army surgeon in the 10th Regiment of Foot. He died on 6 October 1812 in Aranjuez, Spain. At the time of his death he was deputy inspector of hospitals.
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Joshua Henry Davidson

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Joshua Henry Davidson practised as a physician in Edinburgh and worked as one of the physicians in the New Town Dispensary. Davidson was also President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh between 1829 and 1831 and again from 1833 until 1834.

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Alexander Wylie

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Alexander Wylie was born in 1753. He studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1807 to 1808 and received his MD from the University of St Andrews on testimonials signed by John Barclay MD and William Wright MD of Edinburgh. Wylie resided in Dumfries, where he was an agent for the British Linen Bank. In 1808 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and was living in Edinburgh on an independent fortune. He did not practise medicine for the remainder of his life. He became Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1810 and remained in that role until his death on 1 June 1824.
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Adam Burt

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Adam Burt was born some time in 1760. He attended two years of medical study at the University of Edinburgh from 1778 to 1779. By 1782 he was assistant surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, rising to surgeon in 1794 and being promoted to head surgeon and next in line for appointment to the Medical Board by 1806. He received his MD in 1808 from the University of St Andrews. Burt published 'A tract on the biliary complaints of Europeans in hot climates; founded on observations in Bengal' in 1785 and 'On the dissection of the pangolin' in 'Asiatick Researches', vol. 2, 5th ed., in 1807. He died in Calcutta on 20 December 1814.
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John Cheyne

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John Cheyne was born in Leith in 1777. He obtained his MD at the University of Edinburgh in 1795. Cheyne then took up the position of military surgeon, travelling to England and Ireland before returning to Scotland in 1799 to work at the ordnance hospital in Leith Fort. In 1809 he moved to Dublin to establish a private medical practice, where he remained for over twenty years. He also served as physician to Meath Hospital, professor of physic at the Irish College of Surgeons, and physician to the House of Industry. In 1820 he was appointed physician-general to the forces in Ireland. In 1831 Cheyne moved to Buckinghamshire, where he died in 1836.
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James Muttlebury

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James Muttlebury's year of birth is contested; it has been recorded as 1772, 1775 or 1780. He was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh between 1809 and 1810 and received his MD from the University of St Andrews on 21 April 1810. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh the same year. Muttlebury had a long career in the Army Medical Service, first as a regimental mate in 1793, then as surgeon to the 59th Regiment of Foot in 1796. He became Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Inspector of Health for the port of Suriname in 1806. He retired from the army in 1816 with the rank of Inspector of Hospitals and was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1821. He settled in Bath in 1822 and was elected physician to the Bath General Hospital that year, later to the United Hospital of Bath in 1826. He died in 1832.
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James Proud Johnson

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James Proud Johnson was born in 1784, the son of James Johnson of Monksfield and his second wife, Susannah Proud. He received his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1805 and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1810. By 1814 he was practising in Shrewsbury and was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London that same year. He was appointed physician to the Salop Infirmary in 1814, a post he held until his resignation in 1839. He served as High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1836 and as a magistrate for both Montgomeryshire and Salop. He died in Brussels in 1860.
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Henry Hardie

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Henry Hardie studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He received his MD on 12 September 1809, his dissertation entitled 'De diarrhoea'. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1811. Hardie was a physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary from 1816 to 1826 and is believed to have treated some of the injured at Peterloo.
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James Anderson

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James Anderson studied medicine at Marischal College, Aberdeen, graduating in September 1810. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1811.
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David Daniel Davis

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David Daniel Davis was born in Carmarthenshire in 1777. He received his MD from the University of Glasgow in 1801. Davis established his medical practice in Sheffield in 1803 and was appointed physician to the city infirmary in 1804. In 1813 he moved to London and practised midwifery there before being appointed physician to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital in 1814. Davis was professor of midwifery at University College London between 1828 and 1841. He died in London in 1841.