Robert Knox

(1791-1862)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Knox, Robert, 1791-1862 DNB: Knox, Robert (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist LBT ID: RoKnox1862 VIAF ID: 27917721 LOC ID: n84805401	B/BAP: 1791-09-04 DIED: 1862-12-29
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Scottish anatomist, lecturer, and theorist of race whose career who provoked scandal by purchasing murdered corpses from William Burke and William Hare.
REFERENCES TO Robert Knox: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829 Found 1: ¶ 4