Glasgow Veterinary College (higher education institution: 1909-1968: Glasgow, Scotland)

The Glasgow Veterinary College , Glasgow, Scotland, was formally established in 1863 by Royal Warrant, although its origins date back to 1859 when James McCall, FRCVS, an Ayrshire graduate of the Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh, Scotland, started a practice in Hope Street, Glasgow, acting as veterinary surgeon to the largest railway contractors. He began giving classes for Edinburgh students who lived in Glasgow. Formal classes began in 1862 with 10 students. In 1909 the College was incorporated as Glasgow Veterinary College. In October 1945 it was handed over to the University of Glasgow , following the University's willingness to undertake responsibility for veterinary education under the recommendations of the Loveday Committee. The College then became the University's Veterinary School within the Medical Faculty, but in 1968 a separate Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was created.

The first classes for Edinburgh students were given in Sauchiehall Lane, Glasgow. In 1863 McCall moved to larger premises at 397 Parliamentary Road, Glasgow. In 1873 a new building, which previously had been a water-pumping station, was acquired at 83 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow. After refurbishment the new college was opened on 28 October 1874 . Following the College's incorporation in 1909 , it purchased its premises in Buccleuch Street from James McCall. After the hand-over of the College to the University of Glasgow, the Buccleuch Street site continued to be used until 1969 . A new veterinary hospital for clinical and research facilities had been built in 1950 on the Garscube Estate, Glasgow, a veterinary field station had been established on the Cochno Estate, Glasgow in 1954 , and new teaching buildings for the pre- and para-clinical departments were built at Garscube in the 1960s .

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