List of former Aesculapian Club members

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The Aesculapian Club has had many notable former members. The following sections give a list of former members of the Club in chronological order of their year of election.[1][2]

## 1770's

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List of Members elected in the 1770s.  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 1 | Andrew Duncan 'The Elder' | 1773 | Died 1828
| 2 | William Chalmer[3] | 1773 | Died 1784
| 3 | Andrew Wood[4] | 1773 | Resigned 1803; Died 1821
| 4 | James Lind | 1773 | Resigned 1774; Died 1812
| 5 | James Hamilton "Senior"[5] | 1773 | Resigned 1798; Died 1835
| 6 | Benjamin Bell | 1773 | Resigned 1798; Died 1806
| 7 | Thomas Hay[6] | 1773 | Resigned 1803–11; Died 1816/17
| 8 | Forrest Dewar | 1773 | Resigned 1803–11; Died 1817
| 9 | Hamilton McLure | 1773 | Died 1789
| 10 | Colin Lauder | 1773 | Resigned 1792; Died 1831
| 11 | John Balfour[7] | 1773 | Died 1779
| 12 | Nathaniel Spens | 1773 | Resigned 1789; Died 1815
| 13 | Alexander Wood | 1773 | Died 1807
| 14 | Alexander Hamilton | 1773 | Resigned 1788; Died 1802
| 15 | James Hay[8][9] | 1774 | Resigned 1784; Died 1810
| 16 | John Hope | 1774 | Resigned 1784; Died 1786
| 17 | Thomas Wood[10] | 1777 | Resigned 1784
| 18 | Robert Langlands | 1779 | Died 1792

There are two individuals called James Lind who were Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh at this time. The older James Lind was born in 1716 and is most famous for conducting research into the cause and treatment of scurvy. His younger cousin James Lind was born in 1736 and was a physician with interests in natural sciences and botany. He was a similar age to the other founding members making it more likely that he was the Aesculapian. Aesculapian Lind resigned membership of the club after only 11 months in March 1774. In 1774, the younger James Lind is known to have failed to secure a professorship in Edinburgh.[11] Andrew Duncan 'The Elder' and Daniel Rutherford were also applicants.

## 1780's

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List of members elected in the 1780s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 19 | Daniel Rutherford | 1784 | Died 1819
| 20 | William Inglis | 1784 | Resigned 1790; Died 1792
| 21 | Alexander Monro Secundus | 1784 | Resigned 1790; Died 1817
| 22 | Thomas Cochrane[12] | 1788 | Resigned 1793
| 23 | Charles Congalton[13][14] | 1789 | Resigned 1794
| 24 | Thomas Spens | 1789 | Resigned 1803; Died 1842

## 1790's

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List of Members elected in the 1790s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 25 | Andrew Wardrop[15] | 1790 | Resigned 1798; Died 1823
| 26 | Andrew Inglis[16] | 1790 | Resigned 1798; Died 1834
| 27 | James Home[17] | 1792 | Resigned 1826; Died 1844
| 28 | Colin Drummond[18] | 1793 | Resigned 1795
| 29 | John Walker[19] | 1794 | Resigned 1819; Died 1841
| 30 | James Clark[20] | 1794 | Resigned 1798
| 31 | Thomas Wood[10] | 1796 | Resigned 1803–11; Died 1821
| 32 | George Wood[21] | 1796 | Resigned 1833
| 33 | James Russell | 1796 | Resigned 1789; Died 1836
| 34 | Henry Johnston[22] | 1796 | Resigned 1799
| 35 | William Harkness | 1796 | Resigned 1797
| 36 | William Greenfield | 1796 | Resigned 1797; Died 1827
| 37 | James Anderson[23][24][25][26] | 1798 | Resigned 1800; Died 1817
| 38 | William Brown[27] | 1799 | Resigned 1801; Died 1818
| 39 | James Buchan[28] | 1799 | Resigned 1832

There is no record of a William Harkness being a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, but a Walter Harkness became a Fellow in 1792.[29]

There is no record that William Greenfield was a Fellow of either the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh or the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1793 and it was a custom of that Society that non-medical guests who joined in heartily with the proceedings could be invited on multiple occasions and became honorary members by acclamation.[30]

It appears that Thomas Wood was re-elected to the Club in 1796 having resigned membership in 1784.

## 1800's

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List of members elected in the 1800s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 40 | William Farquharson | 1801 | Resigned 1819; Died 1823
| 41 | James Bryce[31] | 1801 | Died 1826
| 42 | John Herdman[32] | 1801 | Resigned 1803–11; Died 1842
| 43 | Alexander Gillespie | 1803 | Resigned 1859; Died 1859
| 44 | Thomas Charles Hope | 1805 | Resigned 1817; Died 1844
| 45 | Andrew Duncan 'The Younger' | 1805 | Died 1832
| 46 | George Kellie | 1805 | Resigned 1805–11; Died 1829
| 47 | Charles Anderson[33] | 1805 | Resigned 1805-11
| 48 | James Wardrop | 1805 | Resigned 1805-11
| 49 | Alexander Wylie | 1809 | 1817

## 1810's

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List of members elected in the 1810s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 50 | James Hamilton 'The Younger' | 1810 | 1824; Died 1839
| 51 | John Barclay | 1810 | Died 1826
| 52 | John Allan[34][35][a] | 1810 | Resigned 1825; Died 1850
| 53 | Henry Dewar | 1816 | Died 1823

1. ^ There is no record of Allan being a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1811 and became a mate on an 'Indiaman' sailing ship in that same year. Allan and John Barclay were both elected to the Aesculapian Club on 6 May 1810; Allan's publication from 1825[34] was 'communicated' by Barclay.

## 1820's

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List of members elected in the 1820s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 54 | Robert Graham | 1820 | Resigned 1835; Died 1845
| 55 | John Aitkin[36] | 1820 | Resigned 1830; Died 1860
| 56 | John Warroch Pursell[37] | 1820 | Died 1835
| 57 |  William Wood | 1820 | Resigned 1831; Died 1858
| 58 | George Ballingall | 1821 | Resigned 1841; Died 1855
| 59 | George Augustus Borthwick | 1821 | Resigned 1839; Died 1844
| 60 | Robert Hamilton[38][39] | 1821 | Resigned 1853; Died 1868
| 61 | William Alison | 1821 | Resigned 1840; Died 1859
| 62 | James Millar (or Miller) | 1822 | Died 1827
| 63 | Richard Huie | 1823 | Resigned 1843; Died 1867
| 64 | Henry Cullen | 1824 | Died 1828
| 65 | William Howison[40] | 1825 | Resigned 1832
| 66 | John Thatcher[41][42][43] | 1826 | Died 1853
| 67 | John MacWhirter | 1826 | Resigned 1853; Died 1854
| 68 | William Moncrieff[a] | 1826 | Died 1836
| 69 | John Argyll Robertson | 1827 | Resigned 1845; Died 1855
| 69 | John Campbell | 1828 | Resigned 1838; Died 1867
| 70 | David Maclagan | 1828 | Resigned 1865; Died 1865
| 71 | Richard Poole | 1829 | Resigned 1833; Died 1871

1. ^ Moncrieff was appointed physician to the New Town Dispensary, Edinburgh on 1 December 1817 and physician to the Royal Public Dispensary in January 1822. On 12 December 1823 he applied for the vacant position of physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.[44] In 1827, Moncrieff was Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[45]

## 1830's

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List of members elected in the 1830s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 73 | Robert Lewins[46][47] | 1830 | Resigned 1843
| 74 | William Beilby | 1831 | Resigned 1841; Died 1849
| 75 | George Hamilton Bell[48][49] | 1832 | Resigned 1841; Died 1862
| 76 | Samuel Alexander Pagan | 1832 | Resigned 1863; Died 1867
| 77 | John Home Peebles[50][51] | 1833 | Resigned 1840
| 78 | Thomas Stewart Traill | 1833 | Resigned 1837; Died 1862
| 79 | William Newbigging | 1833 | Resigned 1839; Died 1852
| 80 | Alexander Macaulay[52][53] | 1834 | Resigned 1844; Died 1868
| 81 | William Gregory | 1834 | Resigned 1837; Died 1858
| 82 | Robert Nasmyth | 1835 | Resigned 1860; Died 1870
| 83 | Charles Anderson | 1836 | Resigned 1846; Died 1855
| 84 | David Hay[54] | 1836 | Resigned 1841; Died 1843/4
| 85 | Peter David Handyside | 1837 | Resigned 1849; Died 1881
| 86 | John C Douglas Smith Snr | 1838 | Died 1879
| 87 | Charles Ransford | 1839 | Resigned 1848; Died 1886
| 88 | James Simson | 1839 | Died 1876

## 1840's

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List of members elected in the 1840s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 89 | Robert Omond | 1840 | Resigned 1878; Died 1881
| 90 | William Seller | 1841 | Died 1869
| 91 | Robert Bowes Malcolm | 1841 | Resigned 1878; Died 1894
| 92 | James Scarth Combe | 1843 | Resigned 1876; Died 1883
| 93 | Charles Bell[55] | 1843 | Resigned 1860; Died 1891
| 94 | James Miller | 1843 | Died 1864
| 95 | Andrew Douglas Maclagan | 1843 | Died 1900
| 96 | William Henderson | 1843 | Resigned 1845; Died 1872
| 97 | John Graham MacDonald Burt | 1843 | Died 1868
| 98 | Andrew Fyfe | 1844 | Resigned 1844; Died 1861
| 99 | George Andrew Paterson[56] | 1845 | Resigned 1850, but remained an 'Emeritus Aesculapian'; Died 1893
| 100 | John Coldstream | 1845 | Resigned 1860; Died 1863
| 101 | Patrick Newbigging | 1845 | Died 1864
| 102 | John Hutton Balfour | 1846 | Resigned 1883; Died 1884
| 103 | James Begbie | 1848 | Resigned 1857; Died 1869
| 104 | James Syme | 1849 | Resigned 1857; Died 1870

The Aesculapian Club photograph album entry for Charles Bell erroneously includes a copy of the portrait of Charles Bell, whose name is given to unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve (Bell's palsy). Bell died in 1842 and was not a member of the Aesculapian Club. Aesculapian Charles Bell was the nephew of Sir Charles and the younger brother of Aesculapian George Hamilton Bell.[55]

## 1850's

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List of members elected in the 1850s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 105 | James Young Simpson | 1850 | Died 1870
| 106 | William Brown[57] | 1852 | Resigned 1871; Died 1873
| 107 | John Taylor[58] | 1854 | Died 1856
| 108 | Benjamin Bell[59] | 1854 | Died 1883
| 109 | Andrew Wood | 1857 | Died 1881
| 110 | James Dunsmure | 1857 | Resigned 1886; Died 1886
| 111 | James Donaldson Gillespie[60] | 1858 | Died 1891

## 1860's

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List of members elected in the 1860s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 112 | Patrick Heron Watson | 1860 | Died 1908
| 113 | William Henry Lowe | 1860 | Resigned 1875; Died 1900
| 114 | Thomas Graham Weir[61][62] | 1861 | Resigned 1894; Died 1896
| 115 | Daniel Rutherford Haldane | 1864 | Died 1887
| 116 | William Rutherford Sanders | 1865 | Died 1881
| 117 | William Turner | 1868 | Died 1916

## 1870's

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List of members elected in the 1870s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 118 | John Duncan | 1870 | Died 1899
| 119 | James Matthews Duncan | 1870 | Resigned 1877; Died 1890
| 120 | James Warburton Begbie | 1870 | Died 1876
| 121 | Joseph Lister | 1872 | Resigned 1877; Died 1912
| 122 | John Smith Jr. | 1876 | Resigned 1910; Died 1910
| 123 | Robert Paterson[63] | 1876 | Resigned 1881; Died 1889
| 124 | Joseph Bell | 1876 | Resigned 1910; Died 1911
| 125 | Claud Muirhead[64] | 1876 | Died 1910
| 126 | Douglas Argyll Robertson | 1878 | Resigned 1904; Died 1909
| 127 | John Wyllie[65] | 1878 | Died 1916
| 128 | William Rutherford | 1878 | Died 1899
| 129 | Robert James Blair Cunynghame | 1879 | Died 1903
| 130 | Thomas Richard Fraser | 1879 | Resigned 1919; Died 1920

## 1880's

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List of members elected in 1880's  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 131 | Francis Brodie Imlach | 1881 | Died 1891
| 132 | Thomas Smith Clouston | 1881 | Died 1915
| 133 | Charles Edward Underhill | 1881 | Died 1908
| 134 | George William Balfour | 1883 | Died 1903
| 135 | Alexander Crum Brown | 1883 | Resigned 1919; Died 1922
| 136 | Thomas Annandale | 1886 | Died 1907
| 137 | Robert Peel Ritchie | 1887 | Died 1902

## 1890's

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List of members elected in the 1890s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 138 | John Chiene | 1892 | Resigned 1919; Died 1923
| 139 | James Dunsmure | 1892 | Died 1907
| 140 | John Sibbald | 1893 | Resigned 1905; Died 1905
| 141 | Francis Cadell[66] | 1895 | Resigned 1906; Died 1909
| 142 | James Andrew[67] | 1899 | Died 1911
| 143 | John Halliday Croom | 1899 | Resigned 1921; Died 1923

In March 1895 Alexander Peddie was elected a member of the club. His photograph was added to the club's album and his name was included in printed list of members for that year. However, he did not attend any dinners and the minutes from October 1895 record that after due consideration Peddie had declined to become a member.[2] In December 1895, Francis Cadell was elected in his place. Cadell was a surgeon and father of the Scottish colourist Francis Cadell.

## 1900's

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List of members elected in the 1900s  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 144 | Sir William Tennant Gairdner | 1900 | Resigned 1902; Died 1907
| 145 | Sir John Batty Tuke | 1902 | Died 1913
| 146 | Sir William Allan Jamieson | 1903 | Died 1916
| 147 | Dr. Alexander James[68] | 1903 | Died 1932
| 148 | Professor Daniel John Cunningham | 1904 | Died 1909
| 149 | Sir George Andreas Berry | 1904 | Resigned 1932; Died 1940
| 150 | Dr. John Playfair[69] | 1905 | Died 1933
| 151 | Dr. Charles Watson MacGillivray[70] | 1907 | Resigned 1928; Died 1932
| 152 | Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill | 1907 | Resigned 1932; Died 1933
| 153 | Lieutenant-Colonel Russell Elliot Wood[71] | 1908 | Died 1917
| 154 | Sir Harold Jalland Stiles | 1908 | Resigned 1937; Died 1946
| 155 | Sir Byrom Bramwell | 1908 | Resigned 1927; Died 1931

## 1910's

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List of members elected in 1910's  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 156 | Mr. Francis Mitchell Caird | 1910 | Died 1926
| 157 | Henry Alexis Thomson | 1910 | Died 1924
| 158 | Dr. George Alexander Gibson | 1910 | Died 1913
| 159 | Sir David Wallace | 1911 | Resigned 1946; Died 1952
| 160 | Professor William Russell | 1911 | Resigned 1926; Died 1940
| 161 | Dr. George Henry 'Harry' Melville Dunlop[72] | 1913 | Died 1916
| 162 | Sir John Macpherson[73] | 1914 | Resigned 1922
| 163 | Dr. Alexander Blackhall-Morison[74] | 1919 | Died 1927

## 1920's

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List of members elected in 1910's  | Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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| 164 | Sir Robert William Philip | 1920 | Died 1939
| 165 | Dr. John James Graham Brown[75] | 1920 | Died 1925
| 166 | Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon | 1920 | Died 1928
| 167 | Dr. Henry Harvey Littlejohn | 1920 | Died 1927
| 168 | Dr. Diarmid Noel Paton | 1921 | Died 1925
| 169 | Dr. George Matthew Robertson[76] | 1921 | Died 1932
| 170 | Dr. James Haig Ferguson | 1921 | Died 1934
| 171 | Francis Darby Boyd | 1921 | Died 1922
| 172 | John Wheeler Dowden | 1921 | Died 1936
| 173 | Dr. William Fordyce[77][78][79] | 1921 | Died 1941
| 174 | Dr. George Lovell Gulland[80] | 1921 | Died 1941
| 175 | Dr. Arthur Logan Turner | 1924 | Died 1939
| 176 | Alexander Miles | 1924 | Resigned 1937; Died 1953
| 177 | Dr. Robert Alexander Fleming | 1925 | Died 1947
| 178 | Dr. Robert Thin | 1927 | Died 1941
| 179 | Dr. Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair | 1927 | Resigned 1946; Died 1962
| 180 | Professor Edwin Bramwell | 1927 | Resigned 1945; Died 1952
| 181 | Dr. Ralph Stockman | 1928 | Resigned 1945; Died 1946
| 182 | Dr. William Thomas Ritchie | 1928 | Died 1945
| 183 | Mr. William James Stuart | 1928 | Died 1958
| 184 | George Lyall Chiene[81] | 1929 | Resigned 1946; Died 1951

## 1930's

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List of members elected in the 1930s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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185 | John William Struthers | 1932 | Resigned 1938; Died 1953
186 | Sir Henry Wade | 1932 | Died 1955
187 | Dr. John Dixon Comrie | 1932 | Died 1939
188 | Lt-Col Anderson Gray McKendrick | 1933 | Died 1943
189 | Dr. George Douglas Mathewson[82] | 1933 | Died 1935
190 | Professor Sir David Percival Dalbreck 'DPD' Wilkie | 1934 | Died 1938
191 | Dr. John Orr[83] | 1936 | Died 1949
192 | Dr. Henry 'Harry' Moss Traquair | 1936 | Resigned 1949; Died 1954
193 | Professor Robert William Johnstone | 1937 | Died 1969
194 | Mr. James Methuen Graham | 1938 | Died 1962
195 | Professor Sir John Fraser | 1938 | Resigned 1946; Died 1947
196 | Lt-Col Alexander Dron Stewart | 1938 | Died 1969
197 | Dr. Andrew Fergus Hewat | 1939 | Died 1957

## 1940's

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List of members elected in the 1940s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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198 | Professor Charles McNeil | 1946 | Resigned 1951; Died 1964
199 | Dr. William Douglas Denton Small[84] | 1946 | Died 1964
200 | Professor Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop | 1946 | Died 1980
201 | Lt-Col William Frederick Harvey | 1946 | Died 1948
202 | Sir David Kennedy Henderson | 1946 | Died 1965
203 | Francis Evelyn Jardine[85] | 1946 | Died 1956
204 | Professor David Murray Lyon | 1946 | Died 1956
205 | Professor Sir Sydney Alfred Smith | 1946 | Died 1969
206 | Professor Alexander Murray Drennan | 1947 | Died 1984
207 | Professor James Couper Brash | 1947 | Died 1958
208 | Dr. Douglas James Guthrie | 1947 | Died 1975
209 | Dr. William Francis Theodore Haultain[86] | 1947 | Died 1958
210 | Walter Quarry Wood | 1947 | Died 1958
211 | Dr. William Alister Alexander[87][88] | 1948 | Died 1976
212 | Professor Douglas James Acworth Kerr[89] | 1949 | Died 1960
213 | Professor Sir James Rognvald Learmonth | 1949 | Died 1967

## 1950's

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List of members elected in the 1950s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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214 | Professor Sir Leybourne Stanley Davidson[90] | 1951 | Resigned 1964; Died 1981
215 | Dr. James Kirkwood Slater | 1952 | Died 1965
216 | Sir Walter 'Wattie' Mercer | 1953 | Died 1971
217 | Dr. Andrew Rae Gilchrist | 1954 | Died 1995
218 | Professor Sir John Bruce | 1955 | Died 1975
219 | Thomas 'Tommy' McWalter Millar[91][92] | 1956 | Resigned 1963; Died 1970
220 | Dr. John Alastair Bruce[93] | 1958 | Died 1971
221 | Dr. Clifford Donald Kennedy[94] | 1957 | Resigned 1988; Died 1989
222 | David Skene Middleton[95] | 1957 | Resigned 1980; Died 1981
223 | Professor Sir John Halliday Croom[96] | 1958 | Resigned 1984; Died 1986
224 | Professor Robert J Kellar[97] | 1958 | Resigned 1979; Died 1981
225 | Professor George Lightbody Montgomery | 1958 | Died 1993
226 | Dr. Ranald Malcolm Murray-Lyon[98] | 1958 | Died 1969
227 | James 'Jimmy' Johnston Mason Brown | 1959 | Died 1964
228 | Dr. David Glyn Lamond Lackie[99] | 1959 | Died 1985

## 1960's

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List of members elected in the 1960s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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229 | Sir James Davidson Stuart 'JDS' Cameron | 1961 | Died 1969
230 | Professor George John Romanes | 1962 | Died 2014
231 | Mr Thomas 'Tammas' Ian Wilson[100] | 1962 | Died 1983
232 | Professor Sir Ian George Wilson Hill | 1963 | Died 1982
233 | Mr James 'Jim' Sneddon Jeffrey | 1964 | Died 1989
234 | Professor Francis John Gillingham | 1965 | Died 2010
235 | Professor Ronald 'Ronnie' Haxton Girdwood[101] | 1965 | Died 2006
236 | Dr. Neil Macmichael[102] | 1965 | Resigned 1980; Died 1989
237 | Dr. John Duncan 'JDM' Matthews[103] | 1969 | Died 2009
238 | Dr. Ronald 'Ronnie' Foote Robertson | 1969 | Died 1991

## 1970's

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List of members elected in the 1970s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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239 | Dr. Robert 'Bobby' M Marquis[104] | 1970 | Died 1989
240 | Professor Michael Oliver[105] | 1971 | Resigned 1984; Died 2015
241 | Mr James Ross | 1971 | Died 1997
242 | Professor Eric Samuel[106] | 1972 | Resigned 1978; Died 1997
243 | Mr Iain MacLaren[107][108] | 1974 | Died 2019
244 | Dr. Hamish Watson | 1976 | Died 2001
245 | Dr. Michael 'Mike' Matthews[109] | 1976 | Resigned 1984; Died 2015
246 | Mr James 'Jimmy' William Wishart Thomson | 1976 | Died 1996
247 | Mr James 'Jimmy' Scott[110] | 1978 | Died 2010
248 | Professor James 'Jim' Robson[111] | 1978 | Died 2010
249 | Mr John Cook[112] | 1979 | Resigned 1987; Died 2020
250 | Dr. Andrew Doig[113] | 1979 | Died 2017
251 | Mr Peter Edmond | 1979 | Resigned

James Thomson was appointed a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1964.[114]

## 1980's

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List of members elected in the 1980s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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252 | Dr. Tom Philp | 1980 | Died 1994
253 | Dr. William 'Bill' Donald MacLennan[115] | 1980 | Died 2002
254 | Professor Ian Bouchier | 1980 | Resigned
255 | Professor Sir James Fraser | 1982 | Died 1997
256 | Mr John Chalmers | 1982 | Resigned 2023
257 | Professor Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest | 1983 | Died 2021
258 | Dr. James Syme[116][117] | 1984 | Died June 1999
259 | Mr Alasdair Bruce MacGregor[118] | 1984 | Died 2002
260 | Professor Robert 'Bob' Evan Kendell | 1984 | Resigned 1992; Died 2002
261 | Professor Arthur 'ACK' Colville Kennedy[119] | 1984 | Died 2009
262 | Mr Alan Dean | 1985 | Resigned 2023
263 | Dr. Anthony 'Tony' Douglas Toft | 1987 | Resigned 2021

## 1990's

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List of members elected in the 1990s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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265 | Professor John Richmond[120][121] | 1990 | Died 2008
266 | Mr James Christie | 1991 | Resigned 2023
267 | Professor John Cash | 1992 | Died 2020
269 | Professor Robert 'Bertie' Wood[122] | 1992 | Died 2022
271 | Professor Charles Forbes[123] | 1993 | Resigned 2006; Died 2017
272 | Dr. Martin Lees[124] | 1993 | Died 2015
273 | Dr. David Thomson | 1994 | Resigned
274 | Dr. Andrew A. Calder MBE | 1996 | Resigned
277 | Professor Ray Newton[125] | 1999 | Died 2022

## 2000's

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List of members elected in the 2000s  Number | Name | Year of Election | Year of Resignation/Death

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279 | Professor A Ross Lorimer | 2002 | Resigned
297 | Dr. Andrew Flapan | 2014 | Died 2025

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