William R. Snodgrass, 1890-1955

William Robertson Snodgrass (1890-1955) studied medicine at Glasgow University and gained his MB in 1913. He became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1920, and was its President 1948-50. He became the first physician appointed to the Southern General Hospital and was instrumental in transforming the old Poor Law institution into a first-rate general hospital. In 1942 he was appointed consultant physician in charge of wards at the Western Infirmary.

From the guide to the Photograph of Fellows of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1925, 1925, (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow)