Alexander Stevenson MD PRCPSG FRSE (1726–1791) was an 18th-century Scottish physician who co-founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.
[2] He studied medicine at Glasgow University gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1746.
[4] On 29 October 1773 he had breakfast (also with Profs Reid and Anderson) with James Boswell and Dr Samuel Johnson during their famous tour of Scotland.
[5] He lived his later years in a house on the east side of Virginia Street.
His sister, Juliana Stevenson, was mother to Thomas Charles Hope.