About Alexander Grant
Lived 1817 – 1900 (aged 82). Alexander Grant was a surgeon.
Surgeon-Major Alexander Grant (22 January 1817 – 3 January 1900) was a British army surgeon who served in the Indian Medical Service.
Grant was born at Elgin, Morayshire and studied at Aberdeen University followed by medicine at Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was admitted FRCS in 1838. After failing to receive commission he went aboard The Thames as a surgeon from 1839 to 1840. He then joined in the Bengal Medical Service after he reached Calcutta, In 1857, he was appointed as Apothecary General and Opium Examiner to the Government of India. He founded the Indian Annals of Medical Science in 1853 which he continued to edit until he retired. He retired in 1863 and settled in Connaught Square, Hyde Park with his sister.
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Who was Alexander Grant?
Scottish surgeon major in the Indian Medical Service (1817-1900)
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Alexander Grant was born on 22 January 1817 in Elgin.
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Alexander Grant died on 3 January 1900 in London.
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Alexander Grant was a surgeon.
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