Alexander Shaw
1804–90
Scottish surgeon. MA, University of Glasgow, 1822. Entered Middlesex Hospital, London, as a pupil, 1822; assistant surgeon, 1836, surgeon 1842. Also entered the Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy, 1827. Member of Royal College of Surgeons, 1828; fellow 1843; served on its college council, 1858–65. Published on and edited works by Sir Charles Bell, his brother-in-law.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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