Alexander Russell Simpson
1835–1916
Scottish physician. Assisted at the practice of his uncle, James Young Simpson, 1st baronet (ODNB), 1858–65. Practised in Glasgow, 1865–70. Dean of the faculty of medicine and professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, Edinburgh University, 1870–1905. Knighted, 1906.
Sources
J. Gray 1952
Medical directory 1862–70
WWW
Bibliography
Gray, James. 1952. History of the Royal Medical Society, 1737–1937. Edited by Douglas Guthrie and with a foreword by Robert Hutchison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Vols. 10,11]
Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.
WWW: Who was who: a companion to Who’s who, containing the biographies of those who died during the period [1897–1995]. 9 vols. and cumulated index (1897–1990). London: Adam & Charles Black. 1920–96.
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