| Authorised form of name | Monro; Alexander (1697 - 1767) |
| Dates | 1697 - 1767 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 08 September 1697 |
| Place of death | His home on Covenant Close, Edinburgh |
| Date of death | 10 July 1767 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Anatomy |
| Activity | 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 27/06/1723 |
| Proposer | William Cheselden |
| Relationships | Son of John Monro, President of the Edinburgh Corporation of Surgeons, and his wife, Jean Forbes; married Isabella, daughter of Sir Donald MacDonald of Skye; his son, Alexander, succeeded him as Professor of Anatomy |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Innes Smith; Hirsch
References:
Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1767), p383; obituary, London Magazine (1767), p372 |
| Code | NA8437 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003140 | Monro, Alexander | 1776 |
| LBO/20/25 | Copy letter from Alexander Monro, Edinburgh, to Hans Sloane | 12 December 1732 |
| L&P/5/64 | Paper, 'Stating that 4 years ago he has injected the lacteals of a tortoise with mercury' by Alexander Monro | 22 December 1768 |
| IM/003139 | Monro, Alexander | nd |