Professor Robert Aim Lennie was educated at the High School of Glasgow and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1912. He was appointed to the staff of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital in 1914, but on the outbreak of war joined the RAMC. On the 30th December 1914, he was commissioned the rank of Lieutenant and on the 30th June 1915 the rank of Capt. At some point he was in command of the Desert Ambulance Train. A keen Territorial since the Great War, he was given the charge of No 4 Scottish General Hosptial, which became the Military Hospital, Drymen. On the 19th July 1946, by Royal Warrant, Robert Aim Lennie became lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Glasgow, to be Regius Professor of Midwifery in place of Professor James Hendry, deceased. He died at his home in Helensburgh. (Information taken from his Obituary in the British Medical Journal, the London Gazette and his Great Nephew Mr A Lennie)