Regius Professor of Surgery (Aberdeen)

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The Regius Professor of Surgery is a Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen , founded in 1839 by Queen Victoria . The foundation was launched shortly before King's College and Marischal College were merged to form the University of Aberdeen , to alleviate the problems caused by the competing colleges.

History of the professorship

In 1497, King's College, founded by Bishop William Elphinstone in 1495, became the first school in the English-speaking world to teach medicine . In 1593, the Fourth Earl Marischal, George Keith , founded a college named after him.

In 1826 the future Prime Minister Robert Peel appointed a commission to investigate all Scottish universities, although the reason was primarily the complaint of the Edinburgh colleges about the interference of the city council. This commission recommended the unification of the colleges in Aberdeen into one university . However, the employment of Parliament resulted in this proposal being ignored for over 30 years. At the same time, however, the proposals of the commission and the half-hearted implementation created tensions between the colleges that were competing in various subjects.

One of the main advantages that the commission foresaw for the university was the creation of a common school of medicine. Such a joint faculty was established, but in 1839 it broke up due to jealousy between King's and Marschial College. Six months later the Krone intervened and re-established the joint school through the foundation of the Regius Professorship for Surgery and the occupation with William Pirrie from Marschial College. In 1860 the colleges were merged and the University of Aberdeen was established as an institution.

owner

Surname name suffix from to annotation
William Pirrie 1839 1882 Pirrie had taught in the latter prior to the merger of the medical faculties of Kings and Marischal College.
Alexander Ogston KCVO, MD, CM, LL.D. 1882 1909
John Marnoch 1909 1932 Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War suffered Prince Albert, later King George VI at an appendicitis . On September 9, 2014, John Marnoch operated on the prince successfully, becoming a royal surgeon and regius professor in Aberdeen from 1909 to 1932.
James Learmonth KCVO, CBE, Hon. FRCS 1932 1938 Learmonth left Aberdeen in 1938 to take over the management of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, where he took over the Regius Professorship for clinical surgery from 1946 .
William Combe Wilson FRCSE 1938 1962
George Smith MBE, D.Sc., MD, Ch.M., FRFPS, FRCSEd., FACS 1962 1982
1982 1984 After George Smith's retirement, the professorship remained vacant until Oleg Eremin was appointed.
Oleg Eremin MD, FRCS (Ed), FRACS 1985 1998
James Douglas Hutchison MB.ChB., PhD., FRCS (Ed) 1999 today

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k John Malcolm Bulloch (1895) A history of the University of Aberdeen 1495 - 1895 ; Hodder and Stoughton.
  2. ↑ a b c The University of Aberdeen, About Us: History ; Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Editorial Comments: The Death of Sir Alexander Ogston . In: The Canadian Medical Association Journal ; 1929, PMID 20317303 , PMC 1710619 (free full text); Page 412.
  4. ^ The University of Aberdeen Role of Honor; Sir Alexander Ogston (1844-1929), Regius Professor of Surgery, University of Aberdeen, accessed April 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ Communication on the appointment of the Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen, Alexander Ogston , to Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland ; in the London Gazette September 16, 1892.
  6. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of James Röngvald Learmonth as Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen, in the London Gazette of September 13, 1932.
  7. ^ A b Special Collections, Records of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society GB 0817 Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society; Ref-No. AMCS / 4/10/5; Royal Correspondence 1914-1916 ; Retrieved April 4, 20106.
  8. ^ A b Ann R Coll: In memoriam Sir James Learmonth, KCVO, CBE, Hon. FRCS (1895-1967). Surg Engl. 1967 Nov; 41 (5), pp. 438–439, PMC 2312018 (free full text)
  9. ↑ a b History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the University of Edinburgh website; Retrieved July 23, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ed.ac.uk
  10. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of George Smith as Regius Professor of Surgery in Aberdeen, in the London Gazette of March 30, 1962.
  11. ^ William C. Wilson; State of Men Severely Wounded in Battle ; The Lancet 243/6297 of May 6, 1944;
  12. ^ A b c Announcement of the appointment of Oleg Eremin Regius Professor of Surgery from October 1982 in the London Gazette on February 1, 1985.
  13. ↑ J. Nelson Norman and George Smith; Hyperbaric oxygen ; Postgraduate Medical Journal, July 1966; Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  14. ↑ Aljafri A. Majid, Andrew N. Kingsnorth (1998) Fundamentals of Surgical Practice ; Cambridge University Press.
  15. ↑ Author information on Oleg Eremin and Herb Sewell (eds.), Essential Immunology for Surgeons ; 2011, Oxford University Press.
  16. ↑ Notice in the Scottish Executive on the appointment of James Douglas Hutchison as Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen on December 14, 1999.