Alexander Monro ( 1697 - 1767 )

Birth: London, England (08 September 1697) Death: His home on Covenant Close, Edinburgh (10 July 1767) Burial: Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh Profession: Physician Research Field: Anatomy Education: Edinburgh; MD; apprenticed to his father (1713); attended lectures by Francis Hauksbee (FRS 1705) and William Whiston and studied dissection under William Cheselden (FRS 1711) in London (1717); Paris; Leyden (admitted 1718) Career: Travelled in France and Holland; Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Surgeons' Company, Edinburgh (1720); Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh University, to which he attracted students from Europe and America (1725-1759); Manager, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh; Director, Bank of Scotland; attended the wounded on both sides after the Battle of Prestonpans (1745); died of pelvic cancer Memberships: FRCPE (1756); Philosophical Society of Edinburgh Membership: Fellow Election Date: 27/06/1723 Proposers: William Cheselden.