Knox, Robert ♂

Education

M.D. 5.3.1750 on testimonials signed by William Porterfield M.D., Edinburgh and Drs Rutherford and Alston, professors in Edinburgh University.

Birth/childhood

Born 1735 in Edinburgh.

Career

Apprenticed to a surgeon apothecary in Edinburgh. [Surgeon apothecary]

Studied Edinburgh University and Paris.

L.R.C.P.L. 1765. F.R.C.P.L. 1786.

Surgeon Major Army Medical Service. Physician Middlesex hospital 1769-1779 when he went to America. Inspector of hospitals in Canada. [Doctor]

Death

Died in London 22.5.1792.

Sources

• Munk's Roll ii 365
• W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 598
• Med. Reg. 1780