Alexander Keiller (physician)
Alexander Keiller FRSE LLD was a Scottish physician and gynaecologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1875–77.Early life
Alexander Keiller was born in Arbroath on 11 November 1811 the fourth child of John Keiller, a merchant and his wife, Isabella Anderson.He lived at 30 Northumberland Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.
In 1865 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Croxen Archer.
He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1849 and was President from 1875 to 1877. He received an honorary doctorate from St Andrews University in 1886.
He died in North Berwick on 26 September 1892. He is buried with his daughters in Warriston Cemetery in the north of Edinburgh. The partly toppled monument lies in the area west of the sealed eastern entrance.Family
He married Maria Elizabeth Roy in 1846.
