I felt rather tired after yesterday’s ride1 but felt quite fit as I walked down to catch the 7.27 for Portsmouth, which I reached at 8.42. I found the meeting place – Municipal Buildings – quite close to the station + had a wait till 10 when the meeting began.2 Stevens3 had got me a seat in the front row between Toye of Barnstaple4 + a man McTear5, so I heard very well. There was a good deal of routine work in the forenoon. We lunched at the Corner House quite near + had tea in the meeting place. There was some very interesting speaking.
Behind me were Stevens, Jardine6 + Craig.7 I saw also Douglas8 + Comrie.9 I went to the Representative dinner10 + did but had to leave to catch the 9.5 just after a Doctor Hawthorn11, a capital speaker, had proposed Wallace Henry’s health.12 It was a very hot day + a lovely moonlit night but I felt pretty well [illegible] out as I climbed the hill to Scotstoun13 We were photographed at the dinner.
1 See Dr Muir’s diary for 19 July 1923 in which he cycled across Surrey from Haslemere to Epsom, a return trip of 63½ miles.
2 The British Medical Association published a full report of the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association held at Portsmouth 24-27 July 1923 [Macewen, William, et al. “Annual Meeting At Portsmouth, July 24th To 27th, 1923.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3264, 1923, pp. 23–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20424140. Accessed 17 July 2023.]
3 John Stevens (1859-1930), M.A., M.D., F.J.C.P. Ed., medical practitioner, former Physician to the Edinburgh Western Dispensary and “indefatigable worker in the British Medical Association” [for further detail see 17 July 1923 diary of Dr John Stewart Muir].
4 Edwin Josiah Toye (1234-1234), M.D., F.R.C.S., medical practitioner, general practitioner and ophthalmic surgeon, sometime President of The Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society [“E. J. Toye, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.S.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 4022, 1938, pp. 313–14. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25368829. Accessed 20 July 2023. ].
5 McTear (if that is a correct reading) is so far unidentified.
6 Possibly James Jardine (about 1845-1926), M.B., C.M., educated Edinburgh University and the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, he had a varied working life [“Dr. James Jardine.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 3445, 1927, pp. 122–122. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25322254. Accessed 20 July 2023].
7 Craig is so far unidentified.
8 Douglas is so far unidentified.
9 John Dixon Comrie (1875-1939), M.D., medical practitioner, lecturer on the History of Medicine, Edinburgh University and Vice-President, The Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. [“Births, Marriages, And Deaths.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 4109, 1939, pp. 200–200. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20314270. Accessed 20 July 2023.].
10 The Representatives occupied a lower level in the administration of the British Medical Association.
11 Perhaps Frank Hawthorn (d.1931), M.D., D.S.O., medical practitioner, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [“Births, Marriages, And Deaths.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3699, 1931, pp. 300–300. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25341476. Accessed 20 July 2023].
12 Robert Wallace Henry (about 1867-1931), B.A., M.D., medical practitioner, heavily involved in the administration of the Insurance Act [“Presentation To Dr. Wallace Henry.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 2794, 1914, pp. 70–70. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25310745 and A. V. C. “R. Wallace Henry, B.A., M.D. Past-Chairman Of The Representative Body, British Medical Association; Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wycliffe Society, And The Leicester School For Myopes.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3693, 1931, pp. 727–29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25341031. Accessed 20 July 2023. , Accessed 20 July 2023.]
13 Scotstoun, Haslemere, where Dr Muir was staying.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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