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John Burns (surgeon)

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and the proprietor of the College Street medical school. He was suspected in robbing graves to provide cadavres for dissecting studies. In 1799, he became Professor of Anatomy and Theory at
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and later Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Royals and died in service at the Cape in 1853, unmarried. Their second son, Allan (born 1819), was a physician and died in 1843 by
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The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry, John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, 1878.
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and had four children. Their first child, John (born 1806) was a member of the
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Burns, the brother of two senior figures in the MacBrayne's and Cunard
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In 1801 he married Isabella Duncan, daughter of Rev. John Duncan of
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This Scottish biographical article related to medicine is a
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Clyde Shipwrecks by Peter Moir and Ian Crawford (1997)
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businesses, was among fifty people who died when the
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FRS
MIF
Rev. John Burns
Barony Church
Glasgow
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Anderson's University
Regius Professor of Surgery
University of Glasgow
Blythswood Square
shipping
G & J Burns
paddle steamship Orion
Portpatrick
Alva
78th Highlanders
typhoid fever
"Burns, John" 
Dictionary of National Biography
This title on Glasgow Digital Library


John Burns
"Burns, John (1774-1850), surgeon"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/4092
UK public library membership
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