Alexander Edwin Marsden

Alexander Edwin Marsden (1832–1902) was an English surgeon and cancer specialist.

Life Born on 22 September 1832, he was the only surviving child of his father William Marsden and his first wife. He was educated at Wimbledon school and King's College, London, and was admitted a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1853 and M.R.C.S. England in 1854. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of St Andrews, in 1862 and became F.R.C.S. Edinburgh in 1868.

Entering the British Army in 1854 as staff assistant surgeon, Marsden served in the Crimean War. For three months he was in the general hospital at Scutari; early in 1855 he was sent to Sevastopol with the 38th Regiment, and then acted as a surgeon to the ambulance corps until the end of the war, when he received the Crimean and Turkish medals.