Dr Craig Andrew Borland

Personal Details

Dr Craig Andrew Borland MB ChB FFARCS DA 

1907 to 1989

Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Nationality: British

CRN: 558266

Education and qualifications

General education	Medical School at University of Glasgow
Primary medical qualification(s)	MB ChB, University of Glasgow, 1929
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	DA (RCP&S), 1935

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation Borland seems to have entered general practice in Glasgow and worked as an anesthetist for the Glasgow Corporation General Hospital. By 1936 he was appointed as an anaesthetist to the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow. In 1941 he was Lecturer in Anaesthetics to the E.M.S., Department of Health, Scotland, and in 1942 he was commissioned Lt. in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After demobilisation he continued to work as Visiting Anaesthetist to the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow and Senior Anaesthetist at the Glasgow Corporation Hospitals until his retirement about 1967. 

Professional interests and activities

He was one of the 46 successful candidates in the very first examination for the Diploma in Anaesthetics held in November 1935. 

Other biographical information

On retirement he moved to live in Lancaster, but eventually returned to Glasgow, where he died at the age of 82 years.

Author and sources

Alistair McKenzie 

Sources and comments: 

[1] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[2] scotlandspeople.gov.uk 

[3] ancestry.co.uk