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. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Watt, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Sir David Wilkie and Arthur Logan Turner. He resigned from the Society in 1948.^[2] In 1946, he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh.^[4] In 1950 he was elected President of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.^[5]

In 1919, Charles McNeil married Alice Hill Workman, daughter of Thomas Workman, a company director. They did not have any children.^[6]