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Prof Robert Cleghorn FRSE FFPSG PRMS (1755-1821) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist.
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Life
Little is known of his early life. He is thought to have been born around 1755. 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.
As a physician he worked at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital, and Glasgow Royal Infirmary (previously known as the Old Town Hospital).
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.