Melville, Thomas ♂

Education

M.D. 13.3.1789 gratis - on recommendation of Professor Flint.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1755.

Career

Apprenticed 1769 to William Chalmer, surgeon, Edinburgh. [Surgeon]

Studied Edinburgh.

Settled to practise in St Andrews in 1773. [Doctor]

Had an apothecary’s shop in partnership with Professor Flint.

Owned the lands of Peikie and St Nicholas. [Landowner]

[Perhaps identical to Thomas Melville, United College 1767-1768]

Death

Died 8.3.1825.

Sources

• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• Scots Magazine 1796 p290
• Gentleman's Magazine 1825 i 478
• Deaths Reg. St Andrews
• Monumental inscription St Andrews Cathedral burial ground