Alexander Edington

Prof Alexander Edington MD CM FRSE (1860-1928) was a Scots-born bacteriologist and medical author strongly associated with South Africa.

In the 1880s he became assistant surgeon to John Chiene and was then professor of comparative pathology at the Veterinary College in Edinburgh.

In 1889 Edington was awarded a doctorate for his thesis,[citation needed] Contribution to surgical pathology and physiology.

His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, John Chiene, Leonard Dobbin and Hugh Marshall.

In 1900 he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis,[citation needed] South-African horse-sickness: its pathology and methods of protective inoculation.