Charles McNeil FRCPE FRCP RSE (21 September 1881 – 27 April 1964) was a physician specialising in paediatrics, in particular neonatal paediatrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1940-1943.
Life edit
McNeil studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB in 1905.[1] At the outset of World War I, he was commissioned as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps[2] attached to the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and from 1915-1918 was in command of the military hospital at Rouen.[3]
After World War I, McNeil returned to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and also conducted a lectureship in children's diseases at the University of Edinburgh. On his retirement, Professor McNeil was given the honorary degree of LLD by the University. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Watt, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Sir David Wilkie and Arthur Logan Turner. He resigned from the Society in 1948.[2] In 1946, he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh.[4] In 1950 he was elected President of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[5]
Family edit
In 1919, Charles McNeil married Alice Hill Workman, daughter of Thomas Workman, a company director. They did not have any children.[6]
References edit
- ^ McNeil, Charles (1905). "Three ward cases".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ Scott-Moncreiff, George (1964). A Scottish Physician - Charles McNeil: An Appreciation.
- ^ Guthrie, Douglas. The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Munks Roll Details for Charles McNeil". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2018.