| Description Of Item | Oil on canvas, 87.5 x 74.7 cm
Christopher Clayson was born in 1903 and educated in Derbyshire and George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He obtained an MB ChB from Edinburgh in 1926 and an MD (Gold Medal) in 1936. He was made a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1948, a Fellow in 1951, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1958.
During the final MB examination Christopher Clayson suffered from haemoptyses and was admitted to Southfield Hospital, Edinburgh, where he remained for three years. During this therapeutic idleness he worked for, and passed, the examination for the Diploma of Public Health. After a Clinical Assistantship in the Laennec Hospital, Paris, he returned to Southfield as Assistant Physician and Assistant in the University Department of Tuberculosis. In 1944 he was appointed Physician Superintendent to the Dumfries and Galloway Sanatorium at Lochmaben. In 1970 Dr Clayson was appointed by the Secretary of State as the first Chairman of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical Education and in 1971 as Chairman of a new Departmental Committee on Scottish Licensing Law. His Report led to the Licensing (Scotland) Act of 1976.
Artist: Oliver Thomas |