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Photograph of James Finlayson.

Finlayson initially studied Arts at the University of Glasgow in the 1856-1857 session. After a few years working in business with his father, he decided on a career in medicine, beginning his studies at Anderson's College in 1862 and moving to Glasgow University in 1863. He graduated MB, CM in 1867. He received his MD two years later.

He was assistant to Sir William Tennant Gairdner in 1871 while Gairdner was Regius Professor of Medicine at Glasgow. In 1875 Alstead became Physician of the Glasgow Western Infirmary, a post he held until his death.

In 1877 Alstead was elected as Honorary Librarian of the Faculty, a position he held for 25 years. He was President of the Faculty from 1900 to 1903.

Photographic portrait of Stanley Alstead, seated in robes and wearing the College President medal.

Alstead studied at Liverpool University and junior positions in Liverpool, Birmingham and Salford. He became Pollok Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow in 1932 while he was on the dispensary staff at the Western Infirmary. In 1948 he became Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow, taking charge of a clinical unit at Stobhill General Hospital.

He was President of the College from 1956 to 1958.

Small booklet for the 78th "Battleaxe" Division of the British Army. Inside the booklet are two small lapels with the insignia of the division. These items belonged to Dr John Buchanan Barr, a doctor and general practitioner who served during the Second World War with the "Battleaxe Club".

Pictured here is a portrait of Professor Jacqueline Taylor who was the first woman to become president of the College in 2018.

Scan of plaster bust of Professor Carl Browning, who was holder of the Chair of Bacteriology at the University of Glasgow from 1919-1951.

Bronze bust of Dr Tom Honeyman.

Tom John Honeyman graduated MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1909. During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps at Salonika and India, after which he returned to Glasgow to practice.

In 1929 he had a change of career, becoming an art dealer. He moved to London to become the director of the Lefevre Gallery. He then became the Director of Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums in 1939, a post that he held until 1954.

Seated half-length in a black coat and grey trousers.

Livingstone funded his own medical studies at Anderson's University in Glasgow by working as a tradesman cotton spinner. He moved to London to enter the London Missionary Society and further his medical studies in the London hospitals. In 1840 he became a licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and was ordained a missionary in the same year.

Although set to serve as a missionary in China, he was instead sent to South Africa. Here he worked and travelled as a medical missionary for many years.

This portrait was purchased by the Faculty in 1875. It is an 'enlarged photograph by Mr Thomas Annan coloured in oil' and cost 30 guineas. The photograph was taken in 1864, and the image was coloured in oil after Livingstone's death.

Plaster bust by Benno Schotz of Professor Carl Hamilton Browning (1881-1972).

Browning was a Scottish bacteriologist and immunologist. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in medicine in 1907, taking up a position in 1908 as a lecturer in bacteriology under Professor Robert Muir.

In 1911, he became the Director of the Clinical Laboratory at the Glasgow Western Infirmary. After the Great War, he was holder of the Gardiner Chair of Bacteriology at the University of Glasgow from 1919 until 1951.

Professor Browning was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the College in 1958.

Robert Cleghorn gained his medical education at the University of Edinburgh, taking his MD in 1783. He was one of the first managers of Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the first physician to the Glasgow Asylum for the Insane, now Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

James Jeffray graduated MA in Sciences from the University of Glasgow in 1778, then going on to graduate MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1786. From 1790 he was Professor of Anatomy and Botany at the University of Glasgow and President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1793-1795.

Seated half-length in a black suit on a dark background.

William Weir studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and became a member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1816. He graduate MD from the University of Glasgow in 1829.

He worked at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary initially as a surgeon, before becoming Physician to the Infirmary in 1840.

Half-length portrait of Reid wearing a black jacket.

William Louden Reid graduated MB, CM from the University of Glasgow in 1866, and had acted as a dresser to Joseph Lister as a student. He gained his MD in 1869 and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1877. In the same year he began working as a physician at the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital.

He held several other position in Glasgow during his career; Obstetric Physician to the Royal Maternity Hospital, Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Children in the Anderson College, Gynaecologist to the Western Infirmary and Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women.

He became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1931. Reid served as their President from 1905-1907.

Bust-length against a dark background. According to Gibson 1983 this portrait is a copy of part of the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Hunterian Museum.

William Hunter began his career as an apprentice to William Cullen in Hamilton in 1737. He continued his studies in Edinburgh and then London. It was here that he established himself as an anatomist and man-midwife.

He graduated MD from the University of Glasgow in 1750 and became an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Hunter was an avid collector throughout his life and donated his collections of books, coins, and anatomical specimens to the University of Glasgow, which now make up the Hunterian collections.

Joseph Black (1728–1799), President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1759–1761 & 1765–1766). Half-length, facing right.

Bust-length portrait with a landscape background.

Seated three-quarter length by a desk.

John Fergus was educated at the University of Glasgow where he graduated MA in 1833, MB, CM in 1888 and MD in 1897. He spent much of his professional career as a physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

He served as President of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1929 to 1931.

Seated half-length in a black suit on a dark background.

The early part of Wilson's career is shrouded in mystery, but it is believed he began his medical studies at the University of Glasgow. It is thought that he qualified in medicine through the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as a Licentiate, becoming a full member of the Faculty in 1816.

Wilson was one of the founding members of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital in its early days at Greyfriars Wynd and St Andrew's Square. He acted as first and senior physician at this lying-in hospital until his death.

Seated three-quarter length in President's chair.

Seated half-length holding a book.

Cullen began his medical career by undertaking an apprenticeship with John Paisley, a practitioner in Glasgow who also work as the librarian to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

In 1729 he moved to London to take up a surgical post on a merchant ship travelling between London and the West Indies. After some time studying at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, as well as an apprenticeship with William Hunter, Cullen graduated MD from the University of Glasgow in 1740.

He began lecturing in chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1747 and later lectured in materia medica and botany. Cullen was then appointed Professor of Medicine at the university in 1751. He moved to Edinburgh in 1755 and continued the rest of his career there, holding several positions at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Cullen was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1747 to 1749.

Bust-length in a grey suit wearing the President's badge of office.

Campbell graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1952 and travelled to Canada to start his training in anaesthesia. He returned to Glasgow in 1956 and gained more training in anaesthesia at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Stobhill Hospital. He became Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University of Glasgow in 1960, eventually being appointed to Chair of Anaesthesia in 1976. He went on to become the Dean of the Medical School in Glasgow in 1987.

Campbell was the first anaesthetist to become President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1987 and he received his Knighthood in 1994.

Seated half-length in a blue suit against a curtained background.

Sir Alexander MacGregor graduated MBChB and MD from the University of Glasgow in 1908, moving on to Cambridge where he gained his Diploma in Public Health in 1909.

He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1926. After working for a time in infectious diseases at Belvidiere Fever Hospital , he became Glasgow's fourth Medical Officer of Health in 1925. He held this position until he retired in 1946.

In 1955 he was awarded a knighthood for services to the Health Boards in the West of Scotland. He was appointed Honorary Physician to His Majesty the King and was also honoured by King Haakon of Norway. This award was a token of appreciation for his contribution to medical links between the two countries and particularly for making wards available during the Second World War.

Seated half-length in robes against a brown background.

Half-length in a black suit next to a desk.

Seated half-length against a brown background.

Seated half-length portrait of Hume wearing robes.

Robert Hume gained his MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1953.

Hume specialised in haematology and worked for a time as a Consultant Physician at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.

He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1990 to 1992.

Seated three-quarter length, wearing the College robes and the President's badge of office.

Professor Mackay graduated MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1959, gaining his MD in 1973. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1962 and then a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1963. Mackay then went to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1973, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1975, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1994.

He worked as an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, as well as being a Professor and then Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Glasgow.

He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1994-1997.

Professor Williams graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1970 and spent the majority of his career working in geriatric medicine at the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary and Gartnavel Royal Hospital. He also worked as Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine at Stobhill Hospital.

He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2006-2009.

Seated half-length portrait in robes.

Arthur Kennedy studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and graduated in 1945. He specialised in renal medicine. heading up the dialysis team at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, as well as working as the Senior Lecturer in Medicine there.

He was President of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association from 1972-75. He also served as President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1986-1988.

Seated, three-quarter length and wearing the President's badge against a red background.

Andrew Ross Lorimer graduated MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1960 and MD in 1976. After spending time at Vanderbilt University performing research in nuclear medicine and biophysics, he took up the post of Registrar in Medicine at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1963. He was Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Glasgow from 1966 to 1971, and was also consultant cardiologist at the GRI from 1971 to 1991.

He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2000 to 2003.

Seated half-length with his left arm resting on an edition of "The Philosphy of Death".

John Reid began his medical studies by studying anatomy under Dr William Thomson at his amatomical department on College Street. He then went on to take classes at the University of Glasgow and Portland Street School in order to receive his license from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1833.

He spent the majority of his career as a general practitioner in Glasgow and was a member of the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society. Reid heartily opposed the work of Joseph Lister into the antiseptic principle and often wrote reviews of his work in the Lancet.

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George Middleton received an MA from Aberdeen University in 1873 before moving to Glasgow to study medicine. He graduated MBChB with honours in 1876.

He worked at the University of Glasgow as Assistant in Medicine to William Tennant Gairdner. He held this position for over a decade, eventually taking up the post of Visiting Physician at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1892. He became Visiting Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1906, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1926.

Seated bust-length portrait of Snodgrass wearing college robes and President's badge.

William Robertson Snodgrass was a well-educated man, receiving several degrees from the University of Glasgow; MA in 1910, BSc in 1913, MBChB in 1913, and MD in 1935. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1920.

After the War he became Chief Medical Adviser of the Glasgow Venereal Disease service. He worked as a physician at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow and was Consultant Physician at the Glasgow Western Infirmary by 1942.

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Thomas Thomson graduated from MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1945. For the majority of his career he worked as Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow. He was heavily involved in the teaching of clinical medicine and held teaching positions at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Northern Hospitals.

Seated three-quarter length in robes.

Joseph Wright studied at the University of Glasgow and graduated MBChB in 1922, and MD in 1932. 1932 was a momentous year for Wright as he also became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

The majority of his career was spent as Senior Consultant Physician at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, as well as Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.

Half-length portrait of Anderson wearing a black jacket.

Anderson studied medicine in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, becoming a member of the College of Surgeons in 1816. He finally graduated with an MD in Edinburgh in 1819, moving to Glasgow the year after to set up practice. He joined the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1821.

Although primarily a physician, Anderson also had experience in surgery and held several surgical positions at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the 1820s. He was eventually appointed Physician to the Infirmary in 1838, and was also Physician to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.

Seated three-quarter length by a desk. Oil on canvas.

Portrait of Robert Hamilton, standing half-length in a black lace-trimmed cloak.