Regius Professor of Anatomy, Glasgow
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The Regius Chair of Anatomy is a Regius professorship at the University of Glasgow
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Founded in 1718 as the Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany the province of the chair was restricted to anatomy
in 1818 when the Regius Chair of Botany
was founded.
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
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Founded in 1718 as the Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany the province of the chair was restricted to anatomy
Anatomy
Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
in 1818 when the Regius Chair of Botany
Regius Professor of Botany, Glasgow
University of GlasgowThe Regius Chair of Botany at Glasgow University is a Regius Professorship established in 1818.A lectureship in botany had been founded in 1704. From 1718 to 1818, the subject was combined with Anatomy...
was founded.
Regius Professors of Anatomy and Botany/Regius Professors of Anatomy
- Thomas Brisbane MD (1720)
- Robert Hamilton MD (1742)
- Joseph BlackJoseph BlackJoseph Black FRSE FRCPE FPSG was a Scottish physician and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was professor of Medicine at University of Glasgow . James Watt, who was appointed as philosophical instrument maker at the same university...
MD (1756), Later Professor of the Practice of Medicine - Thomas Hamilton MD (1757)
- William Hamilton MD (1781)
- James Jeffray MD (1790)
- Allen Thomson MA MD LLD DCL FRS (1848)
- John ClelandJohn ClelandJohn Cleland was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure....
MA MD FRS (1877) - Thomas Hastie Bryce MA MD FRS (1909)
- Duncan MacCallum Blair MB DSc (1935-1944)http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1272649
- William James Hamilton MD DSc (1946)
- George McCreath Wyburn MB ChB DSc (1948)
- Raymond John Scothorne BSc MD FRSE (1973-1990)