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Welcome to this special Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) edition of Dental Update. The Royal College was founded on the 29 November 1599 with the grant of a charter from James VI given jointly to a distinguished surgeon, Peter Lowe (Figure 1), a physician, Robert Hamilton and an apothecary, William Spang, those three together covering the spectrum of medical practice at that time. The charter empowered them to establish a body to regulate medical and surgical practice and, as well as creating a body that surgeons could join, also allowed physicians to be members. This collaboration, which now includes dentists, remains unique in Britain today.
The College has had a number of different titles (Table 1) becoming the ‘Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow’ in 1909 on the authority of Edward VII, then the ‘Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow’ by an Act of Parliament in 1962. A first property was acquired in 1697 and the Faculty moved into its second home in 1791. Then, in 1862, it acquired the magnificent historical building where it is located today.
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