Andrew Maitland Ramsay FRSE LLD (1859–1946) was a Scottish eye surgeon and medical author. He was President of the Opthamological Society of Great Britain 1923/24 and President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.
Andrew Maitland Ramsay FRSE LLD (1859–1946) was a Scottish eye surgeon and medical author. He was President of the Opthamological Society of Great Britain 1923/24 and President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.
He was born on 9 November 1859 in Glasgow the son of Andrew Ramsay, a clothier of 66 South Portland Street on the south side of the River Clyde. [1] The family moved to West Lothian in his youth and he was educated at Linlithgow Burgh Grammar School. He then studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChM in 1882.
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He gained practical experience at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1891. [2]
In the First World War he served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the 3rd General Scottish Hospital.
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. Together with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the RAMC forms the Army Medical Services.
He succeeded Dr Thomas Reid as lecturer in Ophthalmology at Glasgow University and became Professor in 1936. [3]
In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Percy Herring, David Waterston, Robert James Douglas Graham, and Donald Esme Innes. [4]
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. As of 2017, it has more than 1,660 Fellows.
Professpr Percy Theodore Herring FRSE FRCPE LLD was a physician and physiologist, notable for first describing Herring bodies in the posterior pituitary gland.
Robert James Douglas Graham FRSE (1884–1950) was a Scottish botanist.
He retired to St Andrews at the onset of the Second World War.
He died at home in St Andrews on 20 March 1946 aged 86. [5] He is buried in the east cemetery extension to St Andrews Cathedral churchyard.
In 1906, he married Dr Elizabeth Margaret Pace (1865-1957). [6]
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