Shearer, Alexander ♂
Education
M.A. and M.D. 30.6.1762 on testimonials signed by William Duncan M.D. and John Pringle M.D., London.
Birth/childhood
Born c. 1727.
Career
Studied at Edinburgh University c. 1746-1747.
Hospital Mate Army Medical Service. Regimental Mate 9th Foot Regiment 1751. Surgeon in same regiment 1751-1760.
Death
Died after 1787.
Sources
- P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
- W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 385