A title acquired without labour: Dr George Mossman, MD (1763-1824).
When George Mossman, MD arrived in Bradford in 1787, he claimed to be a graduate of Edinburgh University and thus fully qualified to practise as a Physician. But after a few years it was revealed he had little medical education and had purchased his degree from St Andrews University. His career, however, apparently was unaffected by this and other revelations, and he went on to write several acclaimed essays and journal articles, and became Bradford's most popular and revered physician.
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