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.