Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics (Glasgow)

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The Regius Chair of Medicine and Therapeutics is a professorship in medicine and pharmacology at the University of Glasgow and the oldest professorship there. It emerged in 1989 from the merger of the Regius Professorships for Medical Practice (founded in 1637) and Materia Medica (founded in 1831).

Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine

Founded in 1637 and reinstated as a royal chair after a break in 1712 by Queen Anne .

Surname name suffix from to annotation
Robert Mayne 1637 1646 no Regius Professor yet
John Johnstoun 1714
William Cullen 1751
Robert Hamilton (medical doctor) 1756
Joseph Black 1757
Alexander Stevenson 1766
Thomas Charles Hope 1789
Robert Freer 1796
Charles Badham MA, MB, MD 1827
William Thomson (medic) 1841
John MacFarlane (medic) 1852
William Tennant Gairdner KCB, MD 1862 1900 Born into a distinguished family of Edinburgh academics, Gairdner had shown himself to be not only a teacher but also an astute researcher at the University of Edinburgh .
Thomas McCall Anderson Esq., MD 1900
Samson Gemmell Esq., MD 1908
Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro Esq., MD 1913 1936 Prior to his appointment, Monro had taught at St. Mungo's College in Glasgow.
John William McNee Esq., DSO, MD, D.Sc., Ch.B., FRCP 1936 Oct. 1, 1953
Edward Johnson Wayne Esq., M.Sc., Ph.D., MD, FRCP (London) 1953
Graham Malcolm Wilson 1967
Abraham Goldberg 1978 1989

Regius Professor of Materia Medica

A lectureship for Materia Medica had existed since 1766, but was not established as a royal chair by William IV until 1831 .

Medicine and Therapeutics Regius Professors

Surname name suffix from to annotation
John Low Reid 1989 2009 The announcement of Reid's appointment in the official gazettes of the kingdom explicitly names Abraham Goldberg as the predecessor.
Anna Felicja Dominiczak 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sir Abraham Goldberg. In: The University of Glasgow Story ; Retrieved July 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Thompson Cooper:  Badham, Charles (1780-1845) . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 2:  Annesley - Baird. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1885 (English).
  3. ^ D'Arcy Power:  Thomson, William (1802-1852) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 56:  Teach - Tollet. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1898 (English).
  4. ^ A b George Alexander Gibson:  Gairdner, William Tennant . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Suppl. 2, Volume 2:  Faed - Muybridge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1912 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Thomas McCall Anderson as Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , August 7, 1900.
  6. ↑ Notice of the appointment of Samson Gemmell as Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , June 30, 1908.
  7. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of John William McNee as Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , September 22, 1936.
  8. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro as Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine. In: London Gazette , June 27, 1913.
  9. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Edward Johnson Wayne as Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , April 17, 1953.
  10. ↑ a b c Announcement on the appointment of John Low Reid as Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , October 6, 1989.
  11. ^ University of Glasgow; University appoints female Regius Professor. In: University News, February 8, 2010; Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ Announcement on the appointment of Anna Felicja Dominiczak as Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. In: London Gazette , February 5, 2010.