Alexander Porterfield, Surgeon in Glasgow

ALEXANDER PORTERFIELD

Surgeon in Glasgow: Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow

Alexander Porterfield, here treated, is the son of Alexander Porterfield of that Ilk. Memorials: 249

Evidence from the Burgess Records of Glasgow

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20 May 1690: Porterfield. Alexander, surgeon, master (see 17 April 1712) Glasgow Burgesses, 1573-1750: 222

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17 April 1712: Porterfield. Alexander, chyrurgeon being already burgess, as serving appr. with dec. John Robison, apothecary chyrurgeon, B. and G.B., is now made G.B., same right (see 20 May 1690) Ibidem: 289

Genealogy

1. Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850; with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the Medical Profession in the West of Scotland. By Duncan, Alexander, Librarian of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1896), 307 pp. including index
2. Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow