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Interior-detail of chair from meeting room
SC 695897
Description Interior-detail of chair from meeting room
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 695897
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20727/4
Scope and Content President's Chair, Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Surgeons' Hall, built in 1829-32 for the Royal College of Surgeons, was remodelled in 1908-9 by the architect, Balfour Paul. Paul also designed a new chair for the President of the college, photographed c.1909 by Harry Bedford Lemere. The chair is decorated with ancient symbols taken from the Surgeon's Arms, the 17th-century heraldic crest of the college, although the sun rising above a cloud which appears on the back of the chair has been given a more modern representation. One of the distinguished presidents of the college was Dr Joseph Bell (1837-1911), a surgeon with a flair for making rapid diagnoses. His acute powers of observation inspired one of his pupils, Arthur Conan Doyle, with the model for Sherlock Holmes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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