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E005343 - Roxburgh, Alexander Bruce (1860 - 1953)
Title:
Roxburgh, Alexander Bruce (1860 - 1953)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005343
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-05-16
Description:
Obituary for Roxburgh, Alexander Bruce (1860 - 1953), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Roxburgh, Alexander Bruce
Date of Birth:
19 August 1860
Date of Death:
17 March 1953
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 10 November 1887

FRCS 14 December 1893

LRCP 1887

BA Oxford 1882

MA BM BCh 1891
Details:
Born on 19 August 1860 the second son of William Roxburgh MD Edinburgh, FRCP London, who practised at Bedford, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Boswell, he was educated at Bedford School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took fourth-class honours in the final school of physiology in 1882. He qualified from the London Hospital in 1887, and graduated in medicine at Oxford in 1891. He was for some years chief clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. At the London Hospital he was successively surgical registrar, surgical tutor, lecturer on ophthalmic surgery, and ophthalmic surgeon, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon on retirement. He practised at 7 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, and lived later at Oaksleigh, Locks Heath, near Southampton, where he enjoyed gardening. Roxburgh married in 1916 Edith Annie, daughter of George Fletcher MD of Highgate, who survived him but without children. He died at his home on 17 March 1953 aged 92.
Sources:
*The Times* 18 March 1953 p 10 d

Information from Mrs Edith Roxburgh
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005300-E005399
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