West, Stewart ♂

Education

Student United College 1766-1770 [b, s, t,] m. (Secondar). Yeaman bursar, 1766. M.A. 7.5.1770.

M.D. 13.7.1786.

Birth/childhood

Born 18.5.1752 son of Samuel West minister at Logie and Margaret Mein.

Career

Apprenticed 1770 to Patrick Spark, surgeon, St Andrews. [Surgeon]

Also at Edinburgh University - medical student 1772-1773.

Practised in Jamaica. [Doctor]

Apparently alive in 1801 when Phil. Mag. 11, 166 had a description of a new water engine invented by him. [Inventor]

Death

Apparently alive in 1801 when Phil. Mag. 11, 166 had a description of a new water engine invented by him.

Sources

• UYUC400:21.5.1766
• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• Perthshire Advertiser 10.2.1831 - death of son and namesake