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5 unusual facts about Royal College


Étienne Fourmont

His brother, Michel Fourmont (1690–1746), was also a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and professor of the Syriac language in the Royal College, and was sent by the government to copy inscriptions in Greece.

Faiz El-Ghusein

He attended the Mekteb-i Aşiret-i Humayun (Tribal School) at Constantinople, and continued on to the Royal College.

FMRoyal

FMRoyal is the radio station produced by the Radio Club of the Royal College, Colombo.

Jehan Mubarak

He swam for Royal College and competed at National Level swimming competitions by representing his alma-mater.

Royal College

Although many institutions are formally Royal Colleges, such as the three royal public schools of Westminster, Winchester and Eton, the phrase "The Royal Colleges" is commonly applied to the medical institutions, such as the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Nursing and similar institutions in Australia, Canada, and elsewhere.


Athula Jayawardane

Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Jayawardane joined the army in 1980, undergoing basic training at the Sri Lanka Military Academy.

Gritakumar E. Chitty

Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Chitty went to study law at the University of Ceylon, which he completed in 1965, he presented in 1967 at the Sri Lanka Law College from the bar exam the following year and received its approval.

Lalith Kotelawala

Born to Senator Justin Kotalawela a Ceylonese politician and businessman, he was educated at prestigious Royal College, Colombo and studied chartered accountancy in the UK.

Muliaage

It was built on the style of bungalows in vogue during the colonial era in Ceylon and completed in preparation for the return of Prince Hassan Izzuddin to Male’ in 1920 after completing his education at the Royal College of Colombo.


see also

Alison Peacock

Dame Alison Margaret Peacock DBE (born 17 October 1959) is co-author of Creating Learning without Limits, Member of the Royal Society Vision Committee, Member of the Commission for The Royal College of Teaching, Trustee of The Teacher Development Trust, a National Leader of Education and Headteacher of The Wroxham Teaching School.

Andrzej Szczeklik

Szczeklik is a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican and Royal College of Physicians in London, UK (honorary member), American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory Society, International Society of Thrombosis Haemostasis, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Armand de Souza

Principal John Harward of Royal College encouraged de Souza’s passion for history and English literature.

Christison

Robert Christison FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797–1882), a Scottish toxicologist and physician, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

DRCOG

DObst RCOG, Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Final FRCA

Candidates who pass both the MCQ and the SAQ are invited to the Structured Oral Examination (SOE) ("Viva voce"), in Churchill House, London, the headquarters of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon

Bradwall Hall, near Sandbach, Cheshire was owned by the Barons of Kinderton until it was conveyed to John Latham M.D., president of the Royal College of Physicians.

George Whyte-Watson

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1936 and was appointed consultant surgeon to St Luke's Hospital and Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1946.

Gordon Jacob

Though he studied with Vaughan Williams and Stanford at the Royal College, Jacob preferred the more austere Baroque and Classical models to the Romanticism of his peers, and stuck to this aesthetic even in the face of the trends toward atonality and serialism.

Government Buildings, Dublin

The centre block of the courtyard under the dome was still used by the Royal College of Science, and later when it merged with University College Dublin, by students from the Faculty of Engineering.

Grace Chia

In the UK, she performed her poetry as part of an artistic multimedia ensemble at the Royal College of Art and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Vuk Krakovic and Len Massey.

Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test

It is currently used as the selection criteria for all graduate-entry programmes in Ireland (University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork, and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland).

J. C. A. Corea

The Prefects of Royal College Colombo lined the exit of the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake, as a guard of honour, when his ashes were flown to Colombo, draped with the Royal College flag.

John Howard Kyan

The timber used in building the Oxford and Cambridge Club, British Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Westminster Bridewell, the new roof of the Temple Church, and the Ramsgate harbour works was also prepared by Kyan's process.

Jonathan Rennert

('A force to be reckoned with', opined the reviewer in 'Music & Musicians'.) He studied at the Royal College of Music under Richard Popplewell, John Barstow and William Lloyd Webber, and at Cambridge (where he was organ scholar of St John's College) under George Guest and Gillian Weir.

Kenelm Hutchinson Digby

Digby was educated at Quernmore School, Bromley, and undertook his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, where he was a prize-winning student (holding the Michael Harris, Hilton and Beaney Prizes) and where he gained his MB, BS in 1907 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910.

Kiera Bennett

After Leaving The Royal College in 2002 Bennett was involved in creating Rockwell, an artist run gallery and studios in the East End of London (other founding members include Alex Gene Morrison, Reece Jones, Gavin Nolan, Chris Davies).

L. Bruce Archer

In 1984, Jocelyn Stevens was appointed as Rector of the Royal College of Art, and he peremptorily closed the Department of Design Research.

Lizars

John Lizars (c.1787-1860), Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons,

Marcel Knobil

The launches are judged by admired 'Connoisseurs' including: Joan Burstein CBE (Co-founder of Browns); Gurinder Chadha OBE (Director and Producer); Professor Wendy Dagworthy (Royal College of Art’s Head of Fashion); Nadav Kander (Photographer); Sir John Hegarty (Founder. Creative. BBH); and Luke Johnson (Chairman of Royal Society of Arts).

Matthias Lupri

In his early 20's he studied music at Mount Royal College, where he heard Gary Burton's recordings and became interested in jazz vibraphone music.

Meyer Löw Schomberg

William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols.

Mick Manning

Born in 1959 and brought up in Haworth, near Keighey, Yorkshire, England, Manning studied Graphic Design at The University of Northumbria and then Illustration at The Royal College of Art where his tutors included John Norris Wood, Quentin Blake and Sheila Robinson.

MRCVS

These are members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, (RCVS), who have undertaken specialist and advanced study and presented their thesis to the RCVS and passed an examination to be awarded the Diploma of Fellowship.

Any veterinary surgeon wishing to practice veterinary surgery in the United Kingdom must be a properly registered member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz

In 1943, the Royal College of Surgeons of England elected Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs Chiang Kai-Shek and Professor Naguib Mahfouz as Honorary Fellows of the College, the highest honour the Royal College can bestow.

New College School

Sir (Donald) Keith Falkner (1900–1994): singer and Director of the Royal College of Music

Örjan Sandred

Sandred was teaching composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for 1998–2005 and he has been a guest lecturer at IRCAM, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, at the Bartok Seminar in Szombathely in Hungary, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, at McGill University in Montreal, at Harvard University, at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and other places.

Paul Ellison

He also makes annual appearances at the Royal College of Music, London, the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music and Caroline Emery's annual Bass Club Summer School, where students have the benefit of his experience to help them achieve a pathway to the musical profession.

Peter Simpson

Sir Peter Jeffery Simpson, former president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls

Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Randolph Chitwood

He is a member of 25 professional societies which include the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Cardiac Surgery Biology Club.

Robert Clements

Robert George Clements (1880–1947), physician and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

Royal College of Science, Arts and Commerce

Royal College of Arts, Science, Commerce and Management, popularly known as Royal College, is a college located in Mira Road, Thane, Maharashtra and is affiliated to University of Mumbai.

Sandy Nairne

In this capacity, Nairne oversaw the re-invigoration of the British Art Show, the establishing of the Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA) as a permanent organisation to promote culturally diverse projects, the furtherance of Percent for Art and the creation of the Curating Contemporary Art Course at the Royal College of Art.

Seductive Poison

Dr. Anthony Storr Professor of Psychiatry, Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, and Emeritus Fellow at Green College at Oxford, and a former Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Oxford University wrote: "Deborah Layton vividly describes her initial intense involvement with Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and her eventual risky escape from a promised utopia which had turned into a concentration camp. This book is both gripping and revealing."

State Institute for Music Research

In 1935 a new National Institute for German Music Research was founded in Berlin, led by Max Seiffert, incorporating the old Royal College and the Bückeburg Institute.

Terence English

He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989-92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000.

The Chronic Argonauts

First published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, it is the first well-developed use of a machine constructed to travel through time (a "time machine") in science fiction, as it predates Wells's more famous time travelling novel, The Time Machine, by 7 years.

Thomas Linacre

Reference may also be made to William Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physicians (2nd ed., London, 1878); and the Introduction, by J. F. Payne, to a facsimile eproduction of Linacre's version of Galen de temperamentis (Cambridge, 1881).

Thomas Madiou

Born in Port-au-Prince, Madiou left Haiti at age ten to study in France at the Royal College of Angers (Collège Royal d'Angers).

Tomáš Netopil

Tomas Netopil studied violin and conducting in his home town in the Czech republic as well as at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Prof. Jorma Panula, who educated many prominent conductors.

Windebank

John Windebank (1618–1704), an English physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Wirginia Maixner

She remained in the program and became the first person to be granted maternity leave by the Australian Royal College of Surgeons.

Yvonne Carter

In 1990 she became an Honorary Research Fellow at Keele University and was awarded a three year Royal College of General Practitioners Research Training Fellowship.