James Douglas ( 1675 - 1742 )

Birth: Baads, Scotland (21 March 1675) Death: Red Lion Square, London (02 April 1742) Burial: Church of St Andrew, Holborn, London Profession: Physician Research Field: Medicine, natural history, letters; anatomy Education: Edinburgh; MA (1694); Rheims; MD (1699) Career: Settled in London (c1700); practised dissection and midwifery; Physician to the Queen; William Hunter (FRS 1767) became his pupil (1741); Douglas's manuscripts are now in the Hunterian Library of Glasgow University Memberships: Hon FRCP (1721) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/11/1706 Lectures: Croonian 1741 and 1742 Council: 1714-1715, 1717-1718, 1720, 1724, 1726-1728.