William Banting [SEP] place of death
Professional career.
In the early 19th century, the family business of William Banting of St. James’s Street, London, was among the most eminent companies of funeral directors in Britain. As funeral directors to the Royal Household itself, the Banting family conducted the funerals of King George III in 1820, King George IV in 1830, the Duke of Gloucester in 1834, the Duke of Wellington in 1852, Prince Albert in 1861, Prince Leopold in 1884, Queen Victoria in 1901, and King Edward VII in 1910
professors Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best, the creators of insulin. In 1922 he returned to Edinburgh and became the first person in Europe to use insulin in the treatment of diabetes. He was then Assistant Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place, and had also begun lecturing at the University of Edinburgh. He was the Beit Memorial Fellow 1923 to 1926.
In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being Alexander Gray McKendrick, George Barger, William Ogilvy Kermack, and