Medical qualifications-Glasgow Uni.....

davran · Post by **davran** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:40 pm

Sorry, you will all be fed up with me!!

I have a female relation who obtained a medical degree from Glasgow in 1910 (info from Medical Register of 1913). She was born in England and her father was a professor at the university. Does anyone know how I could get more details of her student days?

According to family lore, the poor girl was not allowed to practice as a GP on the mainland, so she went to live in Jersey, Channel Islands. Family lore also says that she was the first woman GP, but I have not been able to verify this.

clare · Post by **clare** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:03 pm

Hi there,

If you contact the Glasgw University Archives, they should be able to help you - http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/

Cheers,
Clare

Post by **Liz Turner** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:45 pm

You might also get some background information from:-

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/History/Medicine/

Worth an email to ask anyway.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:53 am

davran

What you need to access are not just the records of graduates from Glasgow Yoonie, but also the matriculation records, i.e. the formal registration of someone as a student, who didn't always graduate, formally at least.

David

davran · Post by **davran** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:24 pm

Thanks, everyone. Will try those links.

davran · Post by **davran** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:07 pm

clare wrote:Hi there,

If you contact the Glasgw University Archives, they should be able to help you - http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/

Cheers,
Clare

Just to say 'thanks Clare'. The Uni Archives were most helpful and also gave me a website for Strathclyde Uni, where Florence's father was a professor. They were also extremely helpful.

Thanks again

clare · Post by **clare** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:15 pm

Hi Davran,

I'm glad the archives were helpful. I went on a course there a couple of months ago and the 2 girls that ran it were brilliant.

Cheers,
Clare

vizagriz · Post by **vizagriz** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:09 am

davran wrote:Clare

Just to say 'thanks Clare'. The Uni Archives were most helpful and also gave me a website for Strathclyde Uni, where Florence's father was a professor. They were also extremely helpful.

Thanks again

:D :D :D :!:

And don't forget that what is now the University of Strathclyde (previously John Anderson's University, the Andersonian College and various other incarnations), had a medical school too. For example, David Livingstone enrolled there in 1836, although he never graduated. In 1838 he moved to London and studied at the British and Foreign School of Medicine, the General Dispensary (Aldersgate), Charing Cross and Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. He was too poor to pay the fee of a final medical exam in London, so he sat for the diploma of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow (1840).
So, apart from Glasgow, try both the matriculation and graduation records of Strathclyde, and also the Diplomates register of the Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow (one body) and also the two separate Royal Colleges in Edinburgh - Physicians and Surgeons.
B Durie

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