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James Niven

1851–1925

Scottish physician. BA, Cambridge University, 1874. Fellow, Queen’s College, Cambridge, 1874. MB 1880. At St Thomas’s Hospital, London. In private practice in Manchester, where he also held a number of public posts between 1885 and 1922.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

WWW

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

WWW: Who was who: a companion to Who’s who, containing the biographies of those who died during the period [1897–1995]. 9 vols. and cumulated index (1897–1990). London: Adam & Charles Black. 1920–96.

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