Robert Alexander Fleming

Robert Alexander Fleming FRSE (1862-1947) was a Scottish pathologist and medical author who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1927–29.

[1] He was born in Dundee the son of Emma Lyle and Robert Whillans Fleming, a local merchant.

He then went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine, graduating with an MA in 1884 and MB CB in 1888.

[5] At this time he was living at 10 Chester Street in Edinburgh's West End.

[6] In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, first at the 2nd Scottish General Hospital then at the 42nd General Hospital as part of the Salonika Expeditionary Force.