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City: Memphis<\/span><\/p>\n

SINCLAIR, Alexander Grant,<\/b> physician; born Charlottenburgh, Glengary Co., Ontario, Canada, July 30, 1842; son of Archibald<\/b> and Mary (Grant) SINCLAIR<\/b>; his father was the second son of Peter SINCLAIR<\/b> of Perthshire, Scotland, who became a resident of Canada in 1800; his paternal grandmother was prior to her marriage Ann McINTYRE<\/b>, daughter of Archibald McINTYRE<\/b>, of Kenmore, Scotland; the family is a branch of the Sinclairs of Caithness, and of Norman extraction through William SINCLAIR<\/b>, a kinsman of William, the Conqueror, and an officer in the War of Conquest; his mother was the daughter of Peter GRANT<\/b>, who served with the British forces in the War of 1812; he was educated in the common and grammar schools of Dominion of Canada, and under private tutors abroad, his studies included Latin, French, German, English, mathematics and natural philosophy; he began the study of medicine in 1866 as the private student of Dr. Samuel Campbell of Ontario; attended lectures medical department University of Michigan 1866-1867, taking a course of analytical chemistry the following spring; in 1867 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of N. Y., graduating in 1869 with degree M. D.; after competitive examination became resident surgeon of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he remained from April 1, 1869, to Jan. 29, 1872; from Jan. 29, 1872, to Sept., 1873, he pursued his professional studies in Europe, principally in Vienna; in 1873 he settled in Detroit, Mich., and engaged in the practice of medicine, devoting himself exclusively to disease of the eye, ear, and throat; was opthalmic and aural surgeon to Harper Hospital (Detroit) 1876-1879; he came to Memphis in 1880 and became professor of ophthalmology and otology in the Memphis Hospital Medical College; in 1883 larnyngology was added to his chair and hygiene in 1898; he also held the chair of materia medica 1883-1885; he was secretary of the faculty 1883-1884 and dean of the faculty 1884-1886; in 1890 he again became secretary of the faculty; he has been ophtalmic and aural surgeon St. Joseph’s Hospital since 1889; since 1892 laryngologist of the institution; since 1890 he has been ophthalmic and aural surgeon St. Peter’s Orphan Asylum, and has also since 1890 held the office of United States special examining surgeon, etc.; he originated the movement for the\u00a0 extension of the time of medical college attendants to four years; he is the author of editorials, addresses, translations from the French and German, articles for medical journals, and has read many papers before various medical societies, he is a member of the American Medical Assn., the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Tenn. State Medical Assn.; the Medical and Surgical Assn., of West Tenn.; Tri-State Medical Assn., the Shelby County Medical Society; in 1896 he was vice-president of the American Medical Editors’ Assn.; member of the Tennessee club; director and vice-president Continental Savings Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; member of the Baptist church; in 1901 the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Arkansas Normal College; he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Memphis since 1880.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City: Memphis SINCLAIR, Alexander Grant, physician; born Charlottenburgh, Glengary Co., Ontario, Canada, July 30, 1842; son of Archibald and Mary (Grant) SINCLAIR; his father was the second son of Peter SINCLAIR of Perthshire, Scotland, who became a resident of Canada in 1800; his paternal grandmother was prior to her marriage Ann McINTYRE, daughter of Archibald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,88,4062,4419],"tags":[3323,1873,3322],"class_list":{"0":"post-9834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-grant","11":"tag-mcintyre","12":"tag-sinclair","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13069,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}