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Actions	Douglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909) Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberED.CS.2010.190 TitleDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909) Creator George (1841-1913) Reid (Delineator)‎ DescriptionDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909), Fellow 1862, President 1885-1887 Oil on canvas, c.1900, by Sir George Reid (1841-1913) Argyll Robertson was educated in Edinburgh and Germany and studied medicine at Edinburgh and St Andrews where he graduated MD in 1857. After being a House Surgeon in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary he went to Berlin where he worked with von Graefe, Professor of Ophthalmology in that city, who ushered in the modern era of ophthalmic surgery. He was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in 1863, in succession to William Walker and he became the first Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye at Edinburgh University. At the age of 26 he read and later published a paper on ‘The Calabar Bean as a New Agent in Ophthalmic Practice’: the active principle of the bean is physostigmine. He devised a new drainage operation for glaucoma and he described the syphilitic eye signs which bear his name. He became President of the College (1885-1887), like his father before him. He was also Surgeon Oculist to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, LLD Edinburgh and the first President of the Ophthalmic Society of Great Britain to come from outside London. He was elected one of the judges of the Royal Scottish Academy. A singularly gifted man, he was also an all-round sportsman, expert at shooting, curling and golf. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1865, 1870, 1871 and 1872. He founded and was first President of the Royal Colleges Golf Club in 1890. He died in India and was cremated on the banks of the Gondli. Production periodTwentieth century, early Object nameDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909), Portrait Object categoryArtworks MaterialOil, Canvas Dimensions Painting Height: 75.0 cm Width: 35.5 cm Frame Height: 105 cm Width: 68 cm

Object numberED.CS.2010.190

TitleDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909)

Creator George (1841-1913) Reid (Delineator)‎

DescriptionDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909), Fellow 1862, President 1885-1887 Oil on canvas, c.1900, by Sir George Reid (1841-1913) Argyll Robertson was educated in Edinburgh and Germany and studied medicine at Edinburgh and St Andrews where he graduated MD in 1857. After being a House Surgeon in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary he went to Berlin where he worked with von Graefe, Professor of Ophthalmology in that city, who ushered in the modern era of ophthalmic surgery. He was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in 1863, in succession to William Walker and he became the first Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye at Edinburgh University. At the age of 26 he read and later published a paper on ‘The Calabar Bean as a New Agent in Ophthalmic Practice’: the active principle of the bean is physostigmine. He devised a new drainage operation for glaucoma and he described the syphilitic eye signs which bear his name. He became President of the College (1885-1887), like his father before him. He was also Surgeon Oculist to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, LLD Edinburgh and the first President of the Ophthalmic Society of Great Britain to come from outside London. He was elected one of the judges of the Royal Scottish Academy. A singularly gifted man, he was also an all-round sportsman, expert at shooting, curling and golf. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1865, 1870, 1871 and 1872. He founded and was first President of the Royal Colleges Golf Club in 1890. He died in India and was cremated on the banks of the Gondli.

Production periodTwentieth century, early

Object nameDouglas Moray Cooper Argyll Robertson (1837-1909), Portrait

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MaterialOil, Canvas

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