Robert Alexander Fleming
Dr Robert Alexander Fleming FRSE LLD (1862-1947) was a Scottish pathologist and medical author who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1927-29.[1]
Life
He was burn in Dundee the son of Robert Whillans Fleming, a local merchant, and his wife Emma Lyle. He was educated at Larchfield Academy and Craigmount School. He then went to Edinburgh University to study Medicine, graduating MA in 1884 and MB CB in 1888. He then became senior lecturer in Clinical Medicine at the various Edinburgh medical colleges and university and senior surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Bruce, Daniel John Cunningham, Diarmid Noel Paton and George Alexander Gibson.[2] At this time he was living at 10 Chester Street in Edinburgh's West End.[3]
In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, first at the 2nd Scottish General Hospital then at the 42nd General Hospital as part of the Salonika Expeditionary Force.
He died at Innerhadden at Kinloch Rannoch on 6 December 1947.
Publications
- Short Practice of Medicine and Diseases of Spinal Nerves
- Allbut's System of Medicine: The Mental Element of Crime and Criminals
Family
In 1897 he married Eleanor Mary Holland. Their children included Launcelot Fleming FRSE.
References
- ^ Edinburgh Medical Journal 1958
- ^ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1905-06
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