Charles McNeil (physician)

McNeil studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB in 1905.

[1] At the outset of World War I, he was commissioned as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps[2] attached to the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and from 1915 to 1918 was in command of the military hospital at Rouen.

[3] After World War I, McNeil returned to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and also conducted a lectureship in children's diseases at the University of Edinburgh.

On his retirement, Professor McNeil was given the honorary degree of LLD by the university.

His proposers were James Watt, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Sir David Wilkie and Arthur Logan Turner.