Alexander Monro III

Alexander Monro III
Alexander Monro in the 1840s
Born(1773-11-05)5 November 1773
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died10 March 1859(1859-03-10) (aged 85)
Craiglockhart, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine, surgery, anatomy
The grave of Alexander Monro III, Dean Cemetery

Alexander Monro III of Craiglockhart, FRSE FRCPE FSA (Scot) MWS (5 November 1773 – 10 March 1859), was a Scottish anatomist and medical educator at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. According to his detractors, Monro was an uninspired anatomist who did not compare with his brilliant father or grandfather as a teacher or scientist. His students included Charles Darwin who asserted that Monro "made his lectures on human anatomy as dull as he was himself."[1]

  1. ^ "Alexander Monro, tertius". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 14 July 2015.