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Loan 96 RLF 1/205
Mr Alexander Walker

Mr Alexander Walker

Applications

8 (5 successful)

Date period

13 Jul 1807-11 Oct 1849

Awards

  • Jul 1807 (£10)
  • 6 Mar 1814 (£10)
  • 13 Apr 1814 (£5 - for funeral expenses for his mother-in-law)
  • 3 Sep 1845 (Mrs Esther Walker on behalf of her family; withdrawn)
  • 3 May 1847 (£30)
  • 28 Oct 1848 (referred)
  • 2 Jan 1849 (£20)
  • 11 Oct 1849 (-)

Other author name(s)

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Author's career

  • Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology at Edinburgh

Author's works published

Medical : Physiology

Also named in file

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Timeline

1807

Extract from the minutes of the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Jul 1807
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Receipt, signed for Alexander Walker (signature illegible)

13 Jul 1807
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1814

Alexander Walker to David Williams

6 Mar 1814
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J J Stockdale to David Williams

23 Feb 1814
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Alexander Walker the Committee of the Literary Fund

14 Mar 1814
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Alexander Walker to David Williams

13 Apr 1814
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1813

Mrs Elliot Walker to Alexander Walker

Apr 1813
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1845

Esther Maria Walker to the Literary Fund

3 Sep 1845
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Esther Maria Walker to the Literary Fund

12 Sep 1845
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1846

Esther Maria Walker to Octavian Blewitt

4 Mar 1846
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1847

Application Form, Alexander Walker – endorsed by Alexander Hunter, Robert Knox and Sir William Hamilton

3 May 1847
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Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt

1 Nov 1847
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Sir William Hamilton to the Literary Fund

12 Apr 1847
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Alexander Hunter to the Literary Fund

30 Apr 1847
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Robert Knox to the Literary Fund

30 Oct 1847
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1840

Copy of letter from Professor William Sharpey to Alexander Hamilton

18 Mar 1840
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1847

Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt

22 Nov 1847
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Alexander Walker the Committee of the Literary Fund

6 Dec 1847
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Sir William Hamilton to Octavian Blewitt

29 Nov 1847
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1848

Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt [attached to Loan 96 RLF 1/205/20]

3 Oct 1848
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Application Form, Alexander Walker – endorsed by Sir William Hamilton and Alexander Hunter

28 Oct 1848
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Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt

19 Dec 1848
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Thomas Laing to the Literary Fund, with supporting recommendations for Alexander Walker from five other signatories

28 Dec 1848
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1849

Printed extract from The Lancet, on Alexander Walker’s contributions to knowledge and organising a subscription for his relief

31 Mar 1849
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Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jan 1849
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1848

Alexander Walker to Octavian Blewitt

17 Jan 1848
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1849

Thomas Laing to Octavian Blewitt

5 Jun 1849
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William Stevenson to Octavian Blewitt

11 Oct 1849
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1832

Photocopy of a biographical article on Sir Charles Bell (The Lancet 1832/33)

1832-1833
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1833

Photocopy of Charles Bell’s ‘Lecture on the Nervous System’ (The Lancet 1833/34)

1833-34
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1834

Photocopy of substantial sections from Alexander Walker’s The Nervous System, Anatomical and Physiological (London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1834)

1834
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