Charles McNeil (physician)
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 both London and Edinburgh, and was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1940-1943.
Life
At the outset of World War I, he was commissioned as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps[1] attached to the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and from 1915-1918 was in command of the military hospital at Rouen.[2]
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 LL.D 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.[1]
Family
In 1919, Charles McNeil married Alice Hill Workman, daughter of Thomas Workman, a company director. They did not have any children.[3]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Scott-Moncreiff, George (1964). A Scottish Physician - Charles McNeil: An Appreciation.
- ^ "Munks Roll Details for Charles McNeil". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-20.