Cedric W.M. Wilson MD, PhD
Appointed 1 October 1966. Resigned 1979.

Cederic William Malcolm Wilson, MD, PhD was born on the 23rd of November 1923 in Edinburgh Scotland. His father, Malcolm Wilson was a prominent botanist. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1933 to 1943 and later studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1947, a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1949, a PhD in Pharmacology in 1954 and an MD in 1958. 

He began his career in academia as a Lecturer in Pharmacology and General Therapeutics at the University of Liverpool in 1955. Later, in 1966, following the resignation of George William Pennington, he was appointed Professor of Pharmacology at Trinity College Dublin. Wilson was the eleventh person to head the Department of Pharmacology. He resigned in 1979 and returned to clinical medicine, serving as a Consulting Physician back in Scotland at Law Hospital in Carluke.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with his proposers including notable figures such as William Wright and Derrick Dunlop. He also founded the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine. Beyond pharmacology, he had a keen interest in parapsychology, contributing to both the International Journal for Parapsychology and the Journal of Parapsychology.

Some of his notable publications include “Scottish Medical Traditions (1957)”, “Therapeutic Sources for Prescribing in Great Britain (1963)”, “The Pharmacological and Epidemiological Aspects of Adolescent Drug Dependence (1966)”, “The Common Cold and Vitamin C (1973)” and “Environmental Therapy (1983)”.

C. W. M. Wilson died on the 27th of November, 1993, just four days prior to his 70th birthday.