Robertson Fotheringham Ogilvie

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(1 September 1904 – 17 May 1966) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, pathologist and expert in the field of

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Life

He was born in

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on 1 September 1904 the son of Jeannie Robertson and James Ogilvie. He was educated at

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. He then studied medicine at the

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graduating with an

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in 1928. He immediately began lecturing at the University under Prof. Lorrain Smith and

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. From 1930 he was additionally the Pathologist at

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. He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1932 and in 1939 became Senior Pathologist. In the University he became a Reader in Pathology in 1954. In 1944 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

Edwin Bramwell Edwin Bramwell FRSE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, FRCPE (11 January 1873 – 21 March 1952) was a British Neurology, neurologist. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1935. Life He was b ...

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, and Charles McNeil. He died on 17 May 1966 in

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while attending a conference on diabetes in

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. His body was returned to Scotland and he is buried with his parents in Seafield Cemetery in north Edinburgh.

Family

He was married to Anna Margaret Clark.

Publications

*''Pathological Histology'' (1940) with several reprints *''Experimental Glycosuria'' (1952) *''

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'' (1962)

References

1904 births 1966 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Medical doctors from Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish non-fiction writers {{Scotland-med-bio-stub