Background
WHITLA, William was born in 1851 in Monaghan. Son of Robert Whitla.
WHITLA, William was born in 1851 in Monaghan. Son of Robert Whitla.
Studied at Queen's College Belfast. Doctor of Medicine Queen's University, with highest honours, gold medal and specially commended. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and South.Ed.
Master of Arts (honorary causa), Royal University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary causa), Glasgow University, 1905. Master of Arts.
Appointed Physician to Royal Hospital, 1882. Elected Senator of the Royal University 1886. Examiner in University of Glasgow, 1887.
In Royal University 18S9.
In Victoria University 1899. President of various societies.
President Irish Medical Schools and Graduates Associate. Late President of the Irish Medical Association.
President of the Ulster Medical Society.
Honourable President Therapeutic Section International Congress, Rome, 1894. President, Section of Therapeutics, British Medical Association, 1887.
President I.B.B.M.A. Honorary member Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
President British Medical Association, 1909-1910.
Senator of Queen's University, Belfast. Member General Medical Council. Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Queen's College, Belfast.
Senior Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Consulting Physician to the Ulster Hospital for Women and Children, and to the Ophthalmic Hospital. Doctorate., LL. Doctorate., Justice of the Peace.
Spouse 1876, Ada,daughter of G. Bourne, The Draconage, Staffordshire.