The image features in "The Royal Hospital for Sick Children and its dispensary, Glasgow" by Andrew Macgeorge. ]]>
Geoffrey Fleming graduated from the University of Cambridge BC in 1908, MB in 1910 and MD in 1914. Fleming worked as House Physician at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Glasgow Fever Hospitals. He also worked as Dispensary Physician at the Western Infirmary. After the First World War, where he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Fleming became Assistant Physician and later Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. Upon his retiral he became Consulting Physician to this hospital. In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Medical Paediatrics at the University of Glasgow.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1926 and was president from 1946 to 1948. ]]>

James Hutchison graduated from the University of Glasgow MBChB in 1934. In 1938 he became Assistant Visiting Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow after working as there as the McCunn Research Scholar for two years. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, returning to Glasgow afterwards to take up the position of Physician at the Sick Children's Hospital and Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Mternity Hospital. In 1961 he became the Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Health at the University of Glasgow.

He was President of the College from 1966 to 1968. ]]>

Robert Barclay Ness graduated from the University of Glasgow MB, CM in 1887. After working for some time in private practice, he became Dispensary Physician to the Glasgow Western Infirmary in 1895. In 1910 he became Visiting Physician to the Western Infirmary and was made Honorary Consulting Physician to the Infirmary upon his retirement in 1928. He also worked as Visiting Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

In 1893 he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica at Anderson College and in 1905 he became Professor of the Practice of Medicine.

Ness was president of the College from 1931 to 1933. ]]>

Stanley Graham graduated MB from Toronto University in 1916. After undertaking further study in Vienna, Graham worked with Professor Leonard Findlay at the University of Glasgow in clinical paediatrics. In 1930 he began to work on the wards of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital. He was appointed to the Samson Gemmell Chair of Child Health at the University of Glasgow in 1947.

Graham was president of the College from 1954 to 1956. ]]>

William Sewell gained his MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1909. Sewell held several surgical posts throughout his career. He was Visiting Surgeon to the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary and Assistant Dispensary Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Sewell also worked as House Surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Assistant Surgeon to the Glasgow Western Infirmary.

Sewell became a Fellow of the College in 1926 and was president from 1944 to 1946. ]]>

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. ]]>
Middleton; James Raeburn (1855-1931); Artist]]>

Cameron started his medical career studying at Edinburgh and then graduating from the University of Glasgow MB, CM in 1866. He gained his MD from the university in 1868.

He was taught by Joseph Lister as a medical student, going on to become his house surgeon and assistant at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was appointed Visiting Surgeon to the Infirmary in 1873.

Cameron then moved to the Glasgow Western Infirmary where he first acted as Visiting Surgeon in 1881, before taking over the position of Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Infirmary in 1900. He held several other positions during his career, which included working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, the Glasgow Royal Asylum, the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and the Glasgow Lock Hospital.

Cameron served as President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1897 to 1900.

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Henry, George (Scottish painter, 1858-1943]]>

The Royal Hospital for Sick Children was opened at Garnethill in December 1882 with 58 beds. A further 16 were added in 1887 when a house next door was converted into an annexe. By the 1900s the building could no longer cope with Glasgow’s growing population. In 1914, it moved to a new building at Yorkhill, giving the hospital its popular name. Fellows of the College were involved in the RHSC when it opened, for example Hector C. Cameron, William Macewen and William Leishman. The great historian of the College, James Finlayson, held the office of Physician to the hospital from 1883 to 1898 and on retiring was elected Consulting Physician.]]>