Alexander Stuart FRS FRCP (1673 - 15 September 1742) was a British natural philosopher and physician.
[1] While at sea he kept records of his operations and sent specimens of new creatures to Hans Sloane, with several reports on such animals being published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
After returning to land in 1708 he started a medical degree at Leiden University, and he graduated on 22 June 1711.
[1] He served as a doctor for the British Army for a short time but returned to England where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714.
In 1728 he became a physician-in-ordinary for Caroline of Ansbach[citation needed] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians the same year.