Background
PHILIP, Robert William was born on December 29, 1857. Son of late Reverend George Philip, Doctor of Divinity.
PHILIP, Robert William was born on December 29, 1857. Son of late Reverend George Philip, Doctor of Divinity.
Studied at Royal High School, Edinburgh. Universities of Edinburgh, Leipzig, Berlin, and Vienna. Has occupied himself much with measures for prevention of consumption, and was chiefly responsible for establishment, in 1887, of Royal Victoria Hospital and Dispensary for Consumption, and Farm Colony, Edinburgh.
His scheme 1604 has been adopted by the Local Government Board for Scotland as a national system for the administration of the campaign against tuberculosis. Doctor of Medicine; Master of Arts.
Member of numerous learned Societies. Honourable Member of Society for Internal Medicine, Vienna. Member of Council (late Honourable Secretary) and Examiner in Medicine, Royal College, of Physicians, Edinburgh. F. R.C.P. and physician in Edinburgh; Lecturer on Practice of Medicine, and Diseases of the Chest, School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges since 1889; Physician to the Royal Infirmary; Senior Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Edinburgh, since 1887.
Fellow of the Royal Society (Edinburgh). Clubs: Royal Societies; University, Scottish Arts, Edinburgh.
Travelling, golf, fishing.
Spouse 1888, Elizabeth, y.daughter of late John Fenton Motherwell, Co.