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...er of the Chair, after [[Joseph Gibson (c1698-c1739)]] and [[Robert Smith (1705-1774)]] but was the first to actually lecture on the subject of obstetrics.

...e chair actually to lecture on Midwifery to students of the University was Smith’s successor [[Thomas Young (c1728-1783)]], notes of whose lectures survi ...the Senatus Academicus had successfully petitioned the Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel to appoint a commission to settle the respective rights, powers, and p

...s created by [[Sir Andrew Balfour (1630-1694)]] in 1668, assisted by [[Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)]]. They created a garden at Holyrood and charged James ...Hope was succeeded by [[Daniel Rutherford (1748-1819)]], on whose watch [[Robert Brown (1773-1858)]], of 'Brownian motion' was to graduate.

...ng of Public Law through adapting the Scottish Enlightenment ideas of Adam Smith. He abandoned the Grotian approach to natural law for a Smithian emphasis o Maconochie's successor, [[Robert Hamilton (1763-1831)|Robert Hamilton]], however, does not seem to have taught at all, and, on his death