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Authorised form of nameFellowes; Sir; James (1771 - 1857)
Dates1771 - 1857
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth1771
Place of deathLangstone Cottage, near Havant, Hampshire
Date of death30 December 1857
OccupationSoldier
ActivityEducation:
Peterhouse College, moved to Caius College, Cambridge. MB (1797), MD (1803), MD (1795, Marischal College, Aberdeen)
Career:
Entered the army, in the military hospitals under the Duke of York, Flanders; Physician to the Forces; investigated the Plague, Gibraltar; Chief of the Medical Department of the British Army, Cadiz (ca 1809); Inspector General of Hospitals; retired from service (1815)
Honours:
Kt 1810
Memberships:
FCP (1805)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/02/1816
RelationshipsSon of Sir William Fellowes, Physician
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Boase indicates that he was born in 1772.
CodeNA2817
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1815/27Fellowes, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/62/22Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to O. B. Fellowes Esquire; 22 Alexandra Road, Worthing17 November 1921
NLB/62/349Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to O. B. Fellowes Esquire; 22 Alexandra Road, Worthing31 January 1922
IM/001385Fellowes, Sir Jamesnd
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