Henry Cullen by John Kay

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 Cullen.[2] In 1785 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[3][4]

He died in Edinburgh on 11 October 1790 at age 32.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory:1775-6
  2. ↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  3. ↑ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
  4. ↑ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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