Burns/[Burnes], James ♂

Education

M.D. 7.8.1824 on testimonials signed by William Gibson M.D. and Robert Crabby M.D., Montrose.

Birth/childhood

Born 12.2.1801 son of James Burnes, solicitor and Provost of Montrose and Elizabeth Glegg. [Lawyer]

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1834/35.

Graduate of Kings College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1835, LL.D. 1835. F.R.C.P.E. 23.9.1834. F.R.S.L. 1835. F.R.S.E.

Assistant surgeon Indian medical service, Bombay [now Mumbai, India] 1821. Surgeon 1834. Physician general 1849. Retired 1849. [Doctor]

Publications. Cousin of Robert Burns, poet.

Death

Died 19.9.1862 at Manchester.

Sources

• Kings College graduates
• C. Rogers, Genealogical memoirs of the family of Robert Burns... (London, 1877) p24