| Administrative History | Alexander Greig Anderson was born in 1885 and educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen and Aberdeen University, where he graduated MA in 1905, MB and Ch.B in 1909 and MD in 1914. During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and began to practise as a doctor in Aberdeen in 1919. He worked at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and at the same time lectured in Clinical Medicine at the University. He was appointed Physician to the Royal Household in 1936, awarded the CVO in 1951, and on his retirement from the Royal Household in 1956 was awarded the KCVO. In his practice he concentrated on geriatric medicine and was founder of Aberdeen Old People’s Welfare Council in 1945, establishing homes and social clubs for the elderly poor. He took a keen interest in the University Library, for which the University awarded him an honorary LL.D. in 1949, and he intended to write a history of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, but his retirement was cut short by illness, and he died in 1961. |
| Custodial History | One volume has a bookplate stating that it was bequeathed by Anderson in 1961, and it is likely that the rest were from the same source. |