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Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 104 cm

Born in Edinburgh, Robert Christison (1797–1882) was educated at Edinburgh's High School and University. He matriculated as a medical student in 1815 and joined the class of Alexander Monro, tertius, graduating…

Oil on canvas, 87.5 x 74.7 cm

Christopher Clayson was born in 1903 and educated in Derbyshire and George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He obtained an MB ChB from Edinburgh in 1926 and an MD (Gold Medal) in 1936. He was made a member of the Royal…

Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 66 cm

Born in Orkney and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Thomas Smith Clouston (1840–1915) studied medicine at Edinburgh where he came under the influence of Goodsir, Syme, [James Young] Simpson and Laycock. Laycock…

Oil on canvas, 71 x 78.7 cm

Born in Edinburgh, Andrew Combe was the son of George Combe, a brewer. He was educated at Edinburgh's High School and attended classes in Latin and Greek at Edinburgh University.

At the age of 15 he commenced…

Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 cm

No one made a greater contribution to the control of tuberculosis than John Wenman Crofton (1912–2009). His early post-war work at the Postgraduate Medical School, London and the Brompton Hospital with the Medical…

Oil on canvas, 95 x 79 cm

John Croom had an impressive Edinburgh medical pedigree. His grandfather (also Sir John Halliday Croom) was professor of midwifery in the University of Edinburgh and his father, Dr David Halliday Croom, was a respected…

Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 71 cm

William Cullen (1710–1790) was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and educated at Grammar School and Glasgow College before being apprenticed to Mr Nisbet, a surgeon apothecary. At the age of 19 he became a surgeon on a…

Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 71 cm

This remarkable man, who steeped all his life in the ways of the countryside and its sporting pursuits, was above all a most accomplished physician. Stanley Davidson was President of the College for four years,…

Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 66 cm

Alexander Dick was the third son of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, Ayrshire, and Janet, only child of Sir James Dick of Prestonfield, Edinburgh. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and Leyden, obtaining a MD from…

Oil on canvas, 90 x 80 cm

Artist: Mark Roscoe