Hamilton, Robert ♂

Education

M.A. and M.D. 12.5.1766 on testimonials signed by John Murray M.D., Wells, Norfolk, Alexander Monro, Edinburgh and Joseph Tayler M.D., King’s Lynn.

Birth/childhood

Born Edinburgh 6.12.1721.

Attended Edinburgh High School.

Career

Served apprenticeship with Mr Edmondston, surgeon in Leith.

Studied Edinburgh University c. 1739.

L.R.C.P.E. 3.11.1773. F.R.C.P.E. 1.2.1774. F.R.S.E. 1783.

Was 4 years a surgeon in the Royal Navy.

Practised at King’s Lynn from c. 1750. [Doctor]

Publications

Death

Died 9.11.1793 aged 70.

Sources

• Scots Magazine 1793 p570
• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• R. W. Innes Smith, English speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden (Edinburgh, 1932)
• Gentleman's Magazine 1843 ii 444 death of daughter