Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 7 items

Name of creator(s): Buchanan, Professor William Watson

Administrative/Biographical History
William Watson Buchanan, who was born in Glasgow in 1930, studied medicine at Glasgow University, gaining his MB ChB in 1954 and MD (with Commendation) in 1962. In 1968 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow. He was a Medical Research Fellow and Hall Research Fellow at the Gardiner Institute, Western Infirmary, Glasgow and U.S. Public Health Fellow at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethsda. He later became Professor of Medicine and Honorary Consultant at the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases at the Royal Infirmary Glasgow and upon his move to Ontario, Canada, where he resides today, William Watson Buchanan was appointed Professor Emeritus of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Throughout his career to date Professor Buchanan has made many contributions to medical literature and is a regular contributor to the College Bulletin, writing on topics ranging from Robert Burn’s Rheumatology to Ice Hockey to the History of the Microscope.

Scope and content
Photograph of Trinity Temple at Catinish, North Uist; photograph of Belvedere ex-residents dinner, 1971; pictures of hospitals in Glasgow and the Hunter House at Old Calderwood 1960-1980; music score by G. Sheriff, 1983.

Conditions governing access
Access to some items may be restricted. Please contact the Archivist at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright

Language/scripts of material
English

Finding aids
Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Related units of description
2004.6 commemorative plate of the American Rheumatism Association, 1984

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Lesley Doig, Archive Assistant, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Amended by Carol Parry, College Archivist.

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
20 February 2004; 17 August 2004.