The Aesculapian Club has had many notable former members. The following sections give a list of former members of the Club in chronological order of their...
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The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh is one of the oldest medical dining clubs in the world. It was founded in April 1773 by Dr. Andrew Duncan. Membership...
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Daniel Rutherford Haldane (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
University of Edinburgh awarded him a second honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1883. In 1867 he was also elected a member of the Aesculapian Club and in 1877...
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Alexander Gillespie (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1820. In 1803 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1806...
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Charles Edward Underhill (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
with being a member of the Aesculapian Club and Round Table Club. On a Case of Spurious Pregnancy with Labour (1874) On the Structure of Three Cervical...
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Andrew Wood (surgeon) (category Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a role also previously held by his father William. In 1857 Wood was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1863...
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Alexander Dron Stewart (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Harvey. In 1937 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh. In 1938 he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh and from 1949-55 served...
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origins of the Harveian Society are closely linked with the Aesculapian Club, which was founded by Andrew Duncan in 1773. The Aesculapian Club offered...
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Thomas Charles Hope (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
member of the Highland Society. In 1805 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In May 1810 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London...
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James Millar (physician) (category Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge)
1822 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He frequently lectured on natural history and chemistry, and was one of the physicians at the Edinburgh...
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Robert Graham (botanist) (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Infirmary of Edinburgh, and the 6th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1820–1845). In 1820 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In...
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John Graham MacDonald Burt (category Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh)
1830s he is listed as a surgeon, living at 8 Bank Street in Edinburgh's Old Town. In 1843 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was elected...
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James Miller (surgeon) (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1860. In 1843 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He later...
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Thomas Stewart Traill (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
1854. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1837 Traill was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president...
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Samuel Alexander Pagan (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
1820s, he is listed as a surgeon living at 16 Maitland Street in Edinburgh's West End. In 1832 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1832 Pagan...
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James Russell (surgeon) (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Harveian Society of Edinburgh and in 1796 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In later life, and until retiral, he lived with his family...
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William Alison (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
In 1821 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1821 Alison was also elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President...
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Peter David Handyside (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh...
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Douglas Argyll Robertson (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain from 1893 to 1895, and was President of the International...
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William Newbigging (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1824, his proposer was Robert Jameson. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was knighted...
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Andrew Rae Gilchrist (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1963. In 1954 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1961...
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Andrew Douglas Maclagan (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
elected a member of the Aesculapian Club and is by a considerable margin its longest serving member; he remained an active participant in the Club until his...
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James Warburton Begbie (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. "List of the Ordinary Fellows of the Society". Transactions of the...
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James Syme (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
1849 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1849.[citation needed]...
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Robert William Philip (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
was knighted in the 1913 New Year's Honours list. In 1920 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. In 1955 his work was recognised on a Belgium...
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William Gregory (chemist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Society's Secretary from 1844 to 1858. In 1834 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. After studying for some time on the continent he established...
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James Young Simpson (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
also elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was created a Baronet of Strathavon in the County of Linlithgow, and of the City of Edinburgh, in 1866...
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Colin Lauder (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
1773 Lauder was a founding member of the Aesculapian Club. and in 1782 was one of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh. Dr Colin Lauder...
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Thomas Clouston (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
Lister, 1st Baron Lister, John Hutton Balfour, Sir William Turner and Alexander Crum Brown. In 1881 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club....
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Henry Dewar (physician) (category Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh)
he was also elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. and of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh. In 1819 he was elected a member of the Wernerian Natural...
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