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Monro, Alexander, primuslocked

(1697–1767)
  • Anita Guerrini

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Monro, Alexander, primus (1697–1767), surgeon and anatomist, was born in London on 8 September 1697, the only surviving son of John Monro (bap. 1670, d. 1740), an army surgeon, and his wife and first cousin, Jean Forbes (d. c.1710), daughter of ...

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, 63 vols. (1885–1900), suppl., 3 vols. (1901); repr. in 22 vols. (1908–9); 10 further suppls. (1912–96); (1993)