Aikenhead, Robert

Education

M.D. 23.8.1792 on testimonials signed by Tipping Brown M.D.(Edin.), Sunderland, John Clark, Newcastle and G. Wilkinson, Sunderland.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1750.

Career

Apprenticed to William Stillingfleet, apothecary, York, 1767.

Studied St Bartholomews hospital.

Practised as a surgeon and apothecary in London for 18 years, then retired to a mansion near Vauxhall. [Doctor]

Sources

  • UYUY350
  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)