Browse Artefacts (100 total)

Oil on canvas, 88.5 x 79.5 cm

Niall Finlayson was born in British Guiana, attended Loretto School, Edinburgh, and graduated from the medical school at Edinburgh University in 1964. After junior hospital posts at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary he…

Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 104 cm

Born in Calcutta, Thomas Richard Fraser (1841–1920) graduated with an MD from Edinburgh in 1862; he was awarded a Gold Medal for his thesis on the actions and therapeutic use of the ordeal bean of Calabar,…

Oil on board, 22 x 31 cm

Artist: Grosvenor Thomas

Oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm

Born in Muckhart, Perthshire, the son of a solicitor, George Alexander Gibson was educated at Dollar Academy and at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was a postgraduate student in London, Dublin and…

Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm

Born in Simla, George Matthew Robertson was the son of Colonel John Robertson, CIE. He was educated at Madras College and St Andrews, graduating with a MB ChB from Edinburgh in 1855.

He was awarded an MD with a…

Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 66 cm

Born in Sorn, Ayrshire, George William Balfour intended to emigrate to Australia and in preparation for country life, at the age of 20, qualified as a veterinary surgeon. His interest in medicine stimulated, he gave…

Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm

A son of the manse, Andrew Rae Gilchrist was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a MB ChB in 1921. After resident posts in Cambridge and London, he returned to…

Oil on canvas, 75 x 62.5 cm

Born in Arbroath, Ronald Girdwood attended Daniel Stewart's College and graduated in Edinburgh as the Ettles Scholar of his year in 1939. It was perhaps chance and the uncertainties of wartime service that led him…

Oil on canvas, 130 x 175 cm (estimated)

Artist: Lynn MacGregor

Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm

Born in Aberdeen and educated there and Edinburgh, the name of James Gregory is still remembered by the laity in Scotland on account of a stomach powder he formulated. An African student attending an oral…