Abercrombie, John (1780–1844), physician, eldest of four sons of the Revd George Abercrombie and his second wife, Barbara Morice, was born on 10 October 1780 in Aberdeen, where his father was parish minister of East Church, and exerted a powerful influence on his religious and moral upbringing. ...
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Abercrombie, John (1780–1844), physician
Nick Hervey
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Adams [formerly Adam], Francis (1796–1861), physician and classical scholar
Vivian Nutton
Adams [formerly Adam], Francis (1796–1861), physician and classical scholar, was born on 13 March 1796 at Auchinhove, Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, the son of James Adam, a small farmer and builder, and his wife, Elspet Black. He was educated at the parish school, winning a bursary to ...
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Aird, Ian (1905–1962), surgeon
Hugh Dudley
Aird, Ian (1905–1962), surgeon, was born on 4 July 1905 at Belgrave Terrace, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, the first of two sons of William Aird (b. 1872), master tailor, and his wife, Jean Elizabeth Ogle (formerly Binnie). Both parents were lowland Scots, the father's forebears from ...
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Alderson, Sir James (1794–1882), physician
Robert Harrison
revised by Michael Bevan
Alderson, Sir James (1794–1882), physician, was born in Hull on 30 December 1794, the fourth son of Dr John Alderson and his wife, Sarah Isabella (née Scott; d. 1805), and was baptized in the Bowl Alley Presbyterian Church, Hull, on 18 April 1795. He received his early education at the school of the ...
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Alderson, Sir James (1794–1882)
Maker: Edward Richard Whitfield
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Sir James Alderson (1794–1882) by Edward Richard Whitfield (after John Edward Jones, 1847) Wellcome Library, London
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Alexander, William (1845–1919), surgeon
Jean Barclay
Alexander, William (1845–1919), surgeon, was born on 29 April 1845 at Holestone, co. Antrim, Ireland, one of eight known children of James Alexander (d. 1887), tenant farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1906). After schooling in nearby Doagh, Alexander studied medicine from 1866 to 1870 at ...
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Allen, Dame Ingrid Victoria (1932–2020), neuropathologist
Stanley Hawkins
Allen, Dame Ingrid Victoria (1932–2020), neuropathologist, was born on 30 July 1932 at 63 Gainsborough Drive, Belfast, the eldest of four daughters of an eminent Irish Presbyterian cleric, the Revd Robert Allen (1904–1968), and his wife, Doris Victoria, née Shaw (...
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Alston, Charles (1685–1760), physician and botanist
D. E. Allen
Alston, Charles (1685–1760), physician and botanist, was born on 24 October 1685 at Eddlewood, in the parish of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the third son of Thomas Alston (d. 1703), a physician of Thrinacre Milne and Eddlewood. According to family tradition his paternal ancestors came from ...
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Alston, Sir Edward (1597–1669), physician
William Birken
Alston, Sir Edward (1597–1669), physician, the eldest son and quite possibly the eldest child of the eight children of Edward Alston (d. 1651), a substantial yeoman of Edwardstone, Suffolk, and Margaret Penning (d. in or before 1648), daughter of Arthur Penning...
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Anderson, Katharine Edith McCall (1866–1924), civilian and military nurse
Keiron Spires
Anderson, Katharine Edith McCall (1866–1924), civilian and military nurse, was born at 1 Woodside Crescent, Anderston, Glasgow, on 5 January 1866, the eldest daughter among the eight children of Sir Thomas McCall Anderson (1836–1908), who became a professor of the practice of medicine at the ...
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Anderson, Patrick (1579/80–c. 1660), physician and manufacturer of patent medicines
T. A. B. Corley
Anderson, Patrick (1579/80–c. 1660), physician and manufacturer of patent medicines, was born in Scotland. By 1618, when his first work appeared, he was already an established physician in Edinburgh; the book, about the cold spring of Kinghorn Craig in the Firth of Forth...
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Anderson, Sir Thomas McCall (1836–1908), physician and dermatologist
James Cooper
revised by J. O'D. Alexander
Anderson, Sir Thomas McCall (1836–1908), physician and dermatologist, was born at 159 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on 9 June 1836. One of eight children, he was the second son of Alexander Dunlop Anderson (1794–1871), a medical practitioner in Glasgow and former president of the ...
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Arbuthnot [Arbuthnott], John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), physician and satirist
Angus Ross
Arbuthnot [Arbuthnott], John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), physician and satirist, was baptized on 29 April 1667 at Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, on the north-east Scottish coast, near Stonehaven, the eldest son of Alexander Arbuthnott (c.1636–1691), minister of Arbuthnott, and Margaret, daughter of John Lammie (or Lamy)...
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John Arbuthnot (bap. 1667, d. 1735) by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1723 © Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
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Armstrong, George (1719/20–1789), physician specializing in the treatment of children
Margaret DeLacy
Armstrong, George (1719/20–1789), physician specializing in the treatment of children, was born at Castleton in Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, the third son and youngest of the six children of Robert Armstrong (1661–1732), Presbyterian minister, of Castleton, and his second wife, Christian Mowatt (1675–1753). He was the younger brother of the poet ...
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Arthur, John William (1881–1952), missionary and physician
Andrew C. Ross
Arthur, John William (1881–1952), missionary and physician, was born on 23 April 1881 in Glasgow, son of John William Arthur (1848–1921), a calico printer, and Margaret Dennistoun Sloan (1846–1917), daughter of David Sloan, a Glasgow businessman. He grew up in an atmosphere of warm evangelical piety. Already at the age of twelve he determined to be a missionary and chose to study medicine with that in mind. ...
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Avery, Benjamin (bap. 1684?, d. 1764), Presbyterian minister and physician
David L. Wykes
Avery, Benjamin (bap. 1684
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Balfour, Sir Andrew (1873–1931), expert in tropical medicine and novelist
Arthur S. MacNalty
revised by Mary E. Gibson
Balfour, Sir Andrew (1873–1931), expert in tropical medicine and novelist, was born in Edinburgh on 21 March 1873, the eldest son of Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour MD, of Edinburgh, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Peter Christall, of Elgin. He was educated at ...
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Balfour, George William (1823–1903), physician and cardiologist
G. A. Gibson
revised by Iain Milne
Balfour, George William (1823–1903), physician and cardiologist, was born at the manse, Sorn, Ayrshire, on 2 June 1823, the eighth of the thirteen children of Lewis Balfour DD and Henrietta Scott Balfour, third daughter of George Smith DD, the minister of Galston who was satirized by ...
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George William Balfour (1823–1903) by Reginald Henry Campbell Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
