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Alexander Monro, primus: Quick Facts

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Born September 8, 1697 • London • England
Died July 10, 1767 (aged 69) • Edinburgh • Scotland
House / Dynasty Monro family
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
James Lind
British physician
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William Smellie
Scottish physician
“Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
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Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins
British economist
Augustine Birrell; chalk drawing by Randolph Schwabe, 1927; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Augustine Birrell
British politician
Sir John Pringle
Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet
English physician
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
British obstetrician, educator, and medical writer William Hunter
William Hunter
British physician
Sir Michael Foster, detail of an oil painting by J. Collier, 1907; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Michael Foster
British physiologist
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
British physician
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
prime minister of United Kingdom
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
prime minister of United Kingdom
Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond
Scottish politician
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
Arthur James Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of Balfour
prime minister of United Kingdom
Thomas Erskine, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Charles Ross; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
English lawyer
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Charles Falconer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton
British politician
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of Dundonald
British politician and admiral
Campbell, Menzies
Menzies Campbell
British politician