Keiller, Alexander ♂

Education

M.D. 4.8.1835 by examination. LL.D. 20.2.1886.

Examiner for medical degrees, St Andrews University 1862-1892.

Birth/childhood

Born 11.11.1811 son of John Keiller, general merchant, Arbroath and Isabella Anderson.

Career

Studied Edinburgh.

L.R.C.S.E. 1833. F.R.C.P.E. 5.4.1849.

Began practice in Dundee, but after 7 years moved to Edinburgh. [Doctor]

Examiner for medical degrees, St Andrews University 1862-1892.

Lecturer on midwifery and diseases of women R.C.S.E. Physician Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Examiner Edinburgh University. Acted for Sir James Young Simpson and was a candidate for his chair after his death. [University lecturer]

Publications

Introductory address, delivered at the opening of session 1858-9, at the medical and surgical school, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh, 1859)

Death

Died 26.9.1892 at North Berwick.

Sources

• BMJ 1892 ii 795
• Proc. RSE 19 xxxiv - xxxix
• Deaths Reg. North Berwick 1892/27