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Authorised form of nameBeatty; Sir; William (- 1842)
Dates - 1842
Place of deathYork Place, Portman Square, London
Date of death25 March 1842
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green Cemetery
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
MD (1806, King's College, Aberdeen); MD (1817, St Andrew's University)
Career:
Entered the Royal Navy; Surgeon on the 'Victory' at Trafalgar, and with Nelson when he died (1805); published a narrative on the death of Nelson and possessed the bullet which killed Nelson; Physician, Greenwich Hospital (1806-1840)
Honours:
Kt 1831
Memberships:
LCP (1817)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/04/1818
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
G C Cook, 'Richard Dobson Kt MRCS FRS (1773-1847) and the inferior status of naval medicine in the early nineteeth century: End of the Fleet physicians' in NR 2005 pp 35-43
CodeNA7461
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1818/02Beatty, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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