Monteith, James

Education

M.D. 23.8.1790 on testimonials signed by John Cook M.D. and Joseph Hume M.D., Hamilton.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 6.10.1759 son of James Monteith, manufacturer, Anderston, Glasgow and Agnes Holmes.

Career

F.F.P.S.G. 1777.

Practised Glasgow. Professor of Practice of Medicine, Anderson’s University, Glasgow. President Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow 1820-1822. [Doctor, university professor]

Death

Died 7.10.1834.

Sources

  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
  • A. Duncan, Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1599-1850 (Glasgow, 1896)
  • Scotsman 22.10.1834