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Portrait of Sir W Ferguson Anderson

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Photograph of Sir W Ferguson Anderson, seated wearing the presidential robes and medal.

Ferguson Anderson graduated MCChB with honours from the University of Glasgow in 1936. and was awarded MD with honours in 1942. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during WW2 and was appointed a Major from 1941 to 1946. After the War he became Senior Lecturer in the Department of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was also Assistant Physician to the University Medical Clinic in Stobhill Hospital. After time working in Cardiff, Ferguson Anderson returned to Glasgow to take up the position of Physician in Geriatric Medicine to Stobhill Hospital and Adviser in Diseases of Old Age and Chronic Sickness to the Western Regional Hospital Board.

In 1961 he was awarded the OBE and was knighted in 1974.

Ferguson Anderson was President of the College from 1974 to 1976.

Creator

Elliot Robertson

Date

c. 1978

Portrait of Sir W Ferguson Anderson

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Citation

Elliot Robertson , “Portrait of Sir W Ferguson Anderson,” Heritage, accessed April 26, 2024, https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/2047.