Name William Craig | Role Botanist | |
Dr William Craig FRSE FRCSE (1832–1922) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He was an expert on jaborandi (an appetite suppressant). He served as President of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. His collections and studies were largely focussed upon Perthshire in central Scotland.
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Life
He was born in Avondale, South Lanarkshire on 28 March 1832 the son of John Craig a farmer at High Ploughland.
He originally studied Arts and Divinity at Glasgow University, then in later life studied Medicine and more pharmaceutical type subjects, graduating MB CM at Edinburgh University in 1868. He qualified as a doctor (MD) in 1870.
He lectured on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Minto House on Chambers Street, Edinburgh and at the Extra-Mural Medical School at Surgeon's Hall.
In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Hutton Balfour, Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Alexander Dickson and Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour. In 1878 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He died at home, 71 Bruntsfield Place in south-west Edinburgh on 3 February 1922, aged 89.
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