Dr William R Snodgrass

Photograph of Fellows of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1925.

William Robertson Snodgrass studied medicine at Glasgow University and gained his MB in 1913. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in 1920. He was the first physician appointed to the Southern General Hospital and was instrumental in transforming the old Poor Law institution into a first-rate general hospital. In 1942 he was appointed consultant physician in charge of wards at the Western Infirmary. He was President of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1948-1950.

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