Talk:Extramural medical education in Edinburgh

Triplicate?
The heading Surgeons' Square appears three times with different texts. Perhaps there is a way to make it appear only once, or only once with sub headings.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:37, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Each subheading 'Surgeons' Square' refers to a different house in the square and is preceded by the relevant number. I tried putting 'Number 1' etc to clarify this but it looked a bit cumbersome so left it as is. Papamac (talk) 08:59, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Queen's College, Edinburgh
Iainmacintyre, I have another question, this article gives the dates of Queen's College as 1838–1842, but Triple Qualification refers to "Queen's College, established in 1841". Please could you check the dates?

I have added Queen's College, Edinburgh (1838–1842) to the Queen's College disambiguation page, and linked Alexander Rose (geologist), who lectured there on Geology and Mineralogy. I also found an 1884 report that "A petition has been addressed to Her Majesty in Council by Dr. Henry J. Littlejohn and others, praying that a charter of incorporation may be granted to the Queen's College, Edinburgh, and has been referred to a Committee of the Privy Council, by whom it will be taken into consideration on the 25th of September.". Perhaps that was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the name. TSventon (talk) 12:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks I've found surprisingly little online about Queen's College. There is a large archive on the Extramural School in the Edinburgh College of Surgeons and I plan to visit when it reopens.  Guthrie describes a syllabus for the School of Medicine, Argyll Square dated 1838-39 and goes on 'The connection between this school and Queens College is not clear' although they had lecturers in common. So from available evidence 1841 is the likely date for the start of Queen's College and I've made the change. That Littlejohn petition is interesting. Like you I suspect it was an attempt to revive the name, which would have been an attractive one in the circumstances. Papamac (talk) 15:33, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Iainmacintyre, I too was surprised by the lack of online information about Queen's College. I updated the disambiguation page in 2019 and wasn't sure the Edinburgh college existed. The Edinburgh Geological Society seem confused as well: Mrs Rose found "a Time Table of Queen's College, Edinburgh, for the Summer Session, 1841. This led to a most interesting discovery , since it proved conclusively that Queen's College was not a building but a Teaching or Lecturing Association under whose auspices lectures on a wide range of subjects were given in various places (Brown Square, Argyle Square, etc. )." TSventon (talk) 16:11, 24 March 2021 (UTC)