https://bookowners.online/index.php?title=Charles_Alston_1685-1760&feed=atom&action=historyCharles Alston 1685-1760 - Revision history2024-03-29T10:48:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.0https://bookowners.online/index.php?title=Charles_Alston_1685-1760&diff=20392&oldid=prevDavid: /* Biographical Note */2021-06-30T09:46:55Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Biographical Note</span></span></p>
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Born at [[place of birth::Hamilton, Lanarkshire]], son of [[family::Thomas Alston]], [[occupation::physician]]. Matriculated at [[education::University of Glasgow|Glasgow University]] 1700, but financial hardship after the death of his father in 1703 prevented him from graduating. His potential was recognised by Elizabeth, [[associates::Duchess of Hamilton]] who then supported him and provided him with legal training; he also studied medicine in his spare time and with the Duchess's patronage he became [[occupation::regius professor of botany]] and [[occupation::superintendent]] of the physic garden at [[location::Edinburgh]] in 1715. He graduated MD at [[education::University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] in 1719 and became a fellow of the [[organisations::Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] in 1721 ([[occupation::secretary from 1725). His work and teaching at the Edinburgh botanic gardens significantly enhanced their European reputation though Alston's opposition to the theories of [[associates::Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] proved to be ill-judged.<br />
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====Books====<br />
Alston's library was auctioned in [[location::Edinburgh]], beginning 2 February 1761; no catalogue survives. One book noted as having been bought at that sale survives at the [[present repository::Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]], C.6.18 (Colonna, ''Plantarum'', 1592).<br />
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====Sources====<br />
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*Allen, D. E. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/425 "Alston, Charles (1685–1760), physician and botanist."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. <br />
*Bird, D.T., ''A catalogue of sixteenth-century medical books in Edinburgh libraries'', Edinburgh, 1982, no.581.<br />
*Information from Brian Hillyard.<br />
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