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Authorised form of nameMacWilliam; James Ormiston (1808 - 1862)
Other forms of nameMcWilliam, James Ormiston
Other forms of surnameMcWilliam
Dates1808 - 1862
Date of birth1808
Date of death04 May 1862
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
MD (Edinburgh)
Career:
Surgeon, Royal Navy; went to Cape Verde Islands to study yellow fever; Surgeon to Her Majesty's Board of Customs (1846); died of a head injury from falling down stairs
Honours:
CB 1858
Memberships:
Epidemiological Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1848
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1862-1863 vol 12 pp lix-lxi
CodeNA3594
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1848/11MacWilliam, James Ormiston: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/005660MacWilliam, James Ormistonnd
IM/Maull//002915MacWilliam, James Ormistonnd
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