Robert Cleghorn
Prof Robert Cleghorn FRSE FFPSG PRMS (1755-1821) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist.
Life
Little is known of his early life. He is thought to have been born around 1755.[1] He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MD in 1783. He was in general medical practice as a GP in Glasgow from 1785, then in 1788 begins lecturing in Medicine then in 1791 begins lecturing in Chemistry. In 1818 he is awarded a professorship in Chemistry and Materia Medica at Glasgow University, a role continued until his death.[2]
As a physician he worked at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital, and Glasgow Royal Infirmary (previously known as the Old Town Hospital[3]).
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1790, his proposers being Andrew Dalzel, Dugald Stewart and James Gregory.
He died in Shawfield#Shawfield House near Rutherglen on 18 June 1821.[4]
Positions of Note
- President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1788 -1791
- Honorary President of the Royal Medical Society in 1781 and full President in 1783.
- Member of the Glasgow Literary Society
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland)
References
- ↑ http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/results_n.cfm?NID=9819&RID=&Y1=&Y2=&M=001
- ↑ "Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 189. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858, Fiona MacDonald
- ↑ The History of Rutherglen and East Kilbride, David Ure