John MacWhirter (physician)

Dr John MacWhirter FRSE PRCPE (1783–1854) was a 19th-century Scottish physician who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1831 to 1833.

Life
50 Moray Place, Edinburgh

Little is known of his early life other than he studied Medicine at St Andrews University. He began working in the Indian Medical Service in 1803, attached to the East India Company, being promoted to full Surgeon in 1815. He received his doctorate from St Andrew University in 1816 on his return to Scotland and set up practice as a GP in Edinburgh. In 1824 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Allan. In 1827 he was President of the Harveian Society.[1]

At the time of his Presidency he lived at 4 Ainslie Place in Edinburgh.[2]

He died at home, 50 Moray Place in Edinburgh's affluent West End on 13 December 1854.[3]

Artistic Recognition

He was painted by George Chinnery around 1820.[4]

Family

He married Harriet Ann Reid in Calcutta in 1810.[5]

gollark: So I decided to look at the website on a device which could actually render the sculpture thing, and looking at the FAQ, this seems... odd...:> Each unique seed is stored immutably on the blockchain, and while seeds are case-sensitive, your seed (and therefore, your sculpture) cannot be duplicated by anyone.... *what* does case sensitivity have to do with anything? How can it "not be duplicated"?
gollark: There's this nice one I use for wallpapers: https://github.com/TomSmeets/FractalArt/
gollark: Calling NFTs a form of art themselves, and not the artistic thing they happen to be tied to, seems like calling the fiat currency you might buy artwork with also art.
gollark: Anyway, while it does seem like a cool generative art-type thing (the viewer runs very slowly on my phone so it's hard to tell) I don't think the NFT bit is intrinsic to it at all, or relevant to it except as a somewhat weird way to have it pay for itself.
gollark: 5 million LoC implies you wrote 120000 a day, which seems implausible. And/or would suggest you did waaaaay too much work.

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1833–34
  3. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1853–54
  4. "Bonhams : George Chinnery, RHA (British, 1774-1852) Dr John Macwhirter (c.1780-1853), wearing black coat, white waistcoat, frilled chemise and tied cravat". bonhams.com. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  5. "Message Boards". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-15.


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