Hector's house: Sir Hector Hetherington and the academicization of Glasgow Hospital Medicine before the NHS.

On 4 June 1945, Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, came to Glasgow to receive the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (RFPSG).' The Royal Faculty was an ancient medical licensing body whose office bearers and Fellows had traditionally made up the majority of the clinical elite in the two main local teaching hospitals.2 By the 1940s, however, the RFPSG was out of touch with the changing educational needs of the profession; both its local and national status were threatened by advances