Buist, Robert Cochrane ♂
Education
Student United College 1876-1877 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1877-1878 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2 1878-1879 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Eng. Lit.; Math. 3; Physiol. 1879-1880 N. Phil.; Gk. 3; Chem.; Zool. M.A. 21.4.1881 1st cl. hons. math.
Miller prize, 1879. Arnott prize, 1880. Guthrie scholar.
Lecturer in Gynaecology, St Andrews University from 1900.
LL.D. 18.2.1932.
Birth/childhood
Born 9.8.1860 son of Thomas Powrie Buist, cabinet maker, Dundee and Hannah Cochrane.
Attended Dundee High School.
Career
Also at Cambridge University - B.A. 1883, and Edinburgh University - M.B. 1888, M.D. 1894, LL.D. 1934. Studied Vienna.
Practised Dundee from 1889. Lecturer in gynaecology, St Andrews University from 1900. Hon. consulting obstetrician [Honorary consulting obstetrician] D.R.I. [Dundee Royal Infirmary?] and P.R.I. [Perth Royal Infirmary?]. [Doctor, university lecturer]
Publications
Death
Died Dundee 5.2.1939.
Sources
- UYUC400:23.4.1879
- UYUC665
- UYUY452/20/266
- BMJ 1939 304, 363
- Deaths Reg. St Mary, Dundee 1939/400). See also Robert Cochrane Buist in University of Dundee Archive Services Online Catalogue.