28-721: The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia was a medical guide consisting of recipes and methods for making medicine. It was first published by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1699 as the Pharmacopoea Collegii Regii Medicorum Edimburgensium . The Edinburgh Pharmacopeia merged with the London and Dublin Pharmacopoeia's in 1864 creating the British Pharmacopoeia . The precedence for creating
56-464: A man of real depth and ability". In the late 1830s, a sizeable sum was stolen from the bank during a major highway robbery in Armadale , when the stagecoach between Glasgow and Edinburgh was robbed by four assailants. In the robbery, some £6000 in notes, gold and silver coins was stolen from a cargo trunk belonging to the bank. Two of the robbers, George Gilchrist and George Davidson were found guilty of
84-404: A meeting place, instead renting a premises at 119 George Street. The foundation stone of a new Hall at 9 Queen Street was laid on 8 August 1844. The new Queen Street Hall was designed by Thomas Hamilton . The Queen Street Hall was completed in 1846. An adjacent building, Number 8 Queen Street was designed by Robert Adam as a house for Robert Ord and built between 1770 and 1771, one of
112-578: A pharmacopoeia went back to 1618 when the College of Physicians of London created their own London Pharmacopoeia to regulate the manufacture of medicine. The first edition of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia was created in a period of tension between physicians and surgeons and the College of Physicians in Edinburgh sought to regulate the practice of medicine by providing standardized recipes. The first item in
140-561: The British Pharmacopoeia , which is still in circulation today. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ( RCPE ) is a medical royal college in Scotland. It is one of three organisations that sets the specialty training standards for physicians in the United Kingdom. It was established by royal charter in 1681. The college has over 14,000 fellows and members worldwide, who are given
168-583: The MRCP(UK) or MRCPCH examinations, doctors are eligible to become Members of the college. Commercial Bank of Scotland The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. was a Scottish commercial bank . It was founded in Edinburgh in 1810, and obtained a royal charter in 1831. It grew substantially through the 19th and early 20th centuries, until 1958, when it merged with the National Bank of Scotland to become
196-684: The National Commercial Bank of Scotland . Ten years later the National Commercial Bank merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland . The Commercial Bank of Scotland was formed in 1810 in response to public dissatisfaction with the three charter banks ( Bank of Scotland , British Linen Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland ): "it was felt by many of the Scottish people that the three old Banks had become too…devoted to their own interests…to be
224-520: The 1960s, the information held by the library was modern. From the sixties onward, medical information became more available and college's library became more known for its historical works. In 2015, a project with the University of Glasgow digitised a collection of 5,000 letters of William Cullen from the mid-1750s to 1790, making them available online. As of 2016 , the college has catalogued more than 30,000 records that are in its archives. In 1888
252-573: The College divided into two camps; the 'new science' and Sibbald's dated faction. Members of the College not only disagreed on content of the pharmacopoeia, but style and structure as well. Unlike the London Pharmacopoeia, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia went through many editions and revisions. In the 142 years from initial publication to the merging into the British Pharmacopoeia, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia had twelve acknowledged editions,
280-445: The College of Physician's minutes in 1682 note the need for a committee for creating a pharmacopoeia. The committee for the creation of the pharmacopoeia struggled for the next seventeen years, finally agreeing upon a text and publishing the first edition of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia in 1699. The first edition was rife with dispute amongst the College of Physicians. Robert Sibbald was a main figure in its eventual publication, however
308-556: The NHS, the laboratory could not depend upon income from their reporting service and it closed in 1950. The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (JRCPE) is a peer reviewed medical journal published quarterly by the college. It was established in 1971 as Chronicle , renamed in 1988 to Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , and obtained its current title in 2002. Following successful completion of
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#1732851773871336-532: The bank duly acquired the sole-partner Caithness Bank in Wick . With the exception of the two-office Arbroath Bank in 1844, that was the limit of the bank's acquisitions. From then on the story of the Commercial Bank was of steady organic expansion, accelerating as the century progressed: from 56 in 1860, the number of branches rose to 127 in 1890 and 167 in 1910, the bank's centenary. The bank's relative success towards
364-600: The college put Richard Dadd 's painting of Alexander Morison up for sale, to raise money to treat dry rot. In 1682, Robert Sibbald donated around one hundred books to the college. At the end of the 18th century, the library was located at the Royal Infirmary. The college's library in Queen Street bears Sibbald's name in commemoration. The library also has artefacts, such as a medicine chest that belonged to Stuart Threipland , physician to Bonnie Prince Charlie . In
392-464: The college took the decision to establish its own research laboratory and initially rented a house in Lauriston Lane, near the Royal Infirmary. A three-storey building on Forest Road was acquired and in 1896 was formally opened as the college's new laboratory. It had areas equipped and fitted for a range of disciplines: Bacteriological, Chemical, and Histological and Experimental. With the creation of
420-457: The college's charter becoming obsolete, and they obtained a further charter on 31 October 1861. In 1920 the college enacted changes that allowed women to be admitted on the same terms as men. The charter was amended on 7 May 2005. In 1699 the college first published a medical guide with standardised recipes Pharmacopoea Colegi Regii Medicorum Edimburgensium ; thirteen editions of this Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia were published until 1841 when it
448-477: The earliest New Town constructions. In 1868 it was purchased by the college, who then leased it to other organisations until 1957. A restoration project began in 1990 and lasted seven years. Numbers 11 and 12 were built around 1780. They were purchased by the college in the 20th century. The space behind 11 was used for the Conference Centre and 12 contains flexible meeting rooms and office space. In 1984
476-420: The end of its century was emphasised by its rise from fifth place in 1895 in terms of deposits to second place in 1914. However, one area where the bank lagged was that it was the last of the seven large banks to open a London office – not done until 1883. The inter-war period saw continued branch expansion, the number rising from 240 in 1920 to 385 in 1940 when it owned the largest network in Scotland. However,
504-410: The first of four Earls of Lauderdale to serve as governor over a period of fifty years. In 1834, after several years of success, they built a hugely impressive new headquarters on George Street in Edinburgh, designed by David Rhind . Although "still anxious to extend branches" MacArtney proposed that the bank investigate the possibility of acquiring distressed provincial banking businesses. In 1826,
532-595: The form of hire purchase and in 1954 the Commercial became the first British bank to enter the hire purchase business when it acquired the Scottish Midland Guarantee Trust . Finding a new partner took longer. Discussions with British Linen came to naught but then Lloyds Bank approached the Commercial offering to sell its 100% holding in the National Bank of Scotland in return for a minority stake in
560-443: The head of Leith Walk in Edinburgh . It was always the intention to create a national branch structure and Bank's note issue was used as a form of early advertising: "it was the policy of the directors to arrange for note `circulators` throughout the country as a preliminary to actual agencies, the object being to familiarize the general public with the new Bank". The Commercial enjoyed immediate success and within twelve months it
588-456: The honor of using the post-nominal FRCPE, F.R.C.P.E, or F.R.C.P.(Edin) . The RCPE was formed by a royal charter, granted in 1681, with Sir Robert Sibbald recognised as playing a key part in the negotiations. Three applications preceded this and had been unsuccessful. There were 21 original Fellows, eleven of whom were graduates or students of the University of Leiden . The Universities (Scotland) Act 1858 resulted in several items from
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#1732851773871616-477: The last two in English. Opposition to revision argued that it made the pharmacopoeia appear unstable but proponents argued it kept the pharmacopoeia relevant with scientific and medical developments. The last two editions were published in English under the title The Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh . From 1864, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia combined with the London and Dublin editions to create
644-439: The post-war period was one of radical change for Scottish banks with mergers and fresh links with English Banks. In 1953 an outsider, Ian Macdonald, had been appointed general manager of the Commercial. He presided over a bank "that had been particularly aggressive in branch formation…with somewhat modest capital". Macdonald set out a ten-year programme both to find an amalgamation partner and to diversify. The diversification came in
672-405: The real promoters of the general good." Checkland argued that the project was "without precedent" for the proposed joint stock company relied not on a restricted group of wealthy men but on "a very large group of investors, including those of more modest means, numbered in hundreds, distributed throughout Scotland". The original bank premises were created by David Sandeman at 22 Picardy Place at
700-460: The robbery and sentenced to death. While Gilchrist was hanged in public on 3 August 1831, Davidson managed to escape with the aid of relatives and escaped on a ship, eventually settling in New York. The bank had been keen to obtain a royal charter from the outset but it did not succeed until 1831. The title figure chosen to be the nominal head of the bank was James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ,
728-512: Was "doing a fair proportion of the Banking business in Edinburgh and Leith", and had five branches outside the City. Within two years there were 11 branches and 30 by 1830. This success was despite the first manager having no banking experience and being "slow to learn" to the extent that he was removed in little more than a year. His successor, Alexander MacArtney, had been trained by private bankers and "was
756-515: Was not fully completed until 1830. Unfortunately the great cost of the hall's exterior exhausted the college's finances leaving no money to finish the interior of a building. The college's debt was so much that there was talk of selling the Hall before it was even occupied. The Hall was sold to the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1841 and was demolished. Between 1843 and 1846 the college did not own
784-660: Was replaced by a British Pharmacopoeia . In 1704 the college acquired a house and grounds on Fountain Close, on the Cowgate, in the Old Town . On 27 November 1775 William Cullen laid the foundation stone for a new hall and library in George Street in the New Town . Architect James Craig , had ideas about expansion but the builders of neighbouring properties found favour instead. The hall
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