Haliday, Matthew ♂

Education

M.A. and M.D. 21.1.1762 on testimonials signed by Robert Whytt, professor of medicine, Alexander Monro, professor of Anatomy and John Rutherford, Edinburgh. Also Robert Keith, British Ambassador to St Petersburg.

Birth/childhood

Born 1732.

Career

Studied Edinburgh c. 1753.

Practitioner of physic and surgery at St Petersburg and at his graduation had acted in that capacity to the British Ambassador and British factory for several years. [Doctor]

Death

Died at St Petersburg [Russia] 1809.

Sources

• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• D. Fedosov, The Caledonian connection (Aberdeen, 1996)
• Gentleman's Magazine 1812 i 499