Alexander Read (surgeon)

Alexander Read (1786 – 18 July 1870)[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1825 and 1835.

[3] Alexander Read was born in Downpatrick and received an MA from Trinity College Dublin in 1827.

Read was indentured as a surgeon to Sir Henry Jebb and he was subsequently elected a Member of RCSI in 1810.

Read was Surgeon to Mercer's, the Blue Coat, and Simpson's Hospitals, and to Dublin's prisons.

[2] According to Cameron in his History of RCSI, Alexander Read was esteemed a skilful surgeon, and he had a large purely medical practice.