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Authorised form of nameWitt; George (1804 - 1869)
Dates1804 - 1869
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSwaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England
Date of birth25 March 1804
Place of death22 Princes Terrace, Hyde Park, London
Date of death20 February 1869
DatesAndPlacesBaptism:
St Mary's Church, Swaffham Prior (23 May 1805)
Burial:
St Mary's Church, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
Memorial inscription in Church of St Mary and St Michael, Trumptington, Cambridgeshire
OccupationBanker; Physician; Surgeon
ActivityEducation:
MD (1830, Leyden)
Career:
Naval branch of the HEIC; House Surgeon, Bedford County Infirmary; Physician Bedford Infirmary; Mayor of Bedford (1834); emigrated to New South Wales, worked as a surgeon, then as a banker
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1834
RelationshipsSon of Matthew Witt and Sarah Woollard; married (22 August 1832) Elizabeth Hedley, at St Mary's Church, Bedford; brother, Samuel Witt; sister, Amy Witt
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA7561
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1834/34Witt, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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