Henry Cullen
Henry Cullen FRSE FRCPE (c.1758—1790) was a Scottish physician. He was Chair and Professor of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. From 1776 until his death in 1790 he was a physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Life
Born in Edinburgh, the son of eminent physician and chemist William Cullen (1710-1790) and Anne Johnstone (d.1786). His older brother was the Robert Cullen, later Lord Cullen. The family lived in Mint Close on The Canongate, home of the old Scottish Mint.[1]
He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied Medicine at University of Edinburgh graduating MD in 1780.
A member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh when it received its royal charter, he also was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783, as was his brother Robert.[2]
He died in Edinburgh on 11 October 1790.[3]
References
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory:1775-6
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- ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
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