Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery explained

The Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery is a royal professorship in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1] It was established by George III in 1802 in the university's Faculty of Medicine.

Regius Professors of Clinical Surgery

• Professor James Russell (1802)
• Professor James Syme (1833)
• Lord Joseph Lister (1869)
• Professor Thomas Annandale (1877)
• Professor Francis Mitchell Caird (1908)
• Sir Harold Stiles (1919)
• Sir John Fraser (1927)
• Sir James Learmonth (1946)
• Sir John Bruce (1956)
• Sir Patrick Forrest (1971)
• Sir David Carter (1988)
• Professor O. James Garden (2000)
• Professor Stephen Wigmore (2019)

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery . www.ed.ac.uk . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220907/http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.55988!/fileManager/History%20of%20the%20Chair%20of%20Clinical%20Surgery.pdf . 3 March 2016. dead.