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Authorised form of nameMcGrigor; Sir; James (1771 - 1858)
Dates1771 - 1858
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCromdale, Inverness-shire
Date of birth09 April 1771
Place of deathHis residence in London
Date of death02 April 1858
OccupationSoldier; Surgeon
ActivityEducation:
Grammar School, Aberdeen; Marischal College, Aberdeen. MD (1804, Aberdeen); LCP (1815)
Career:
Purchased a Surgeoncy in the 88th Regiment, or Connaught Rangers; went to India (1798); returned to England; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, Walcheren (after 1804); Chief of Medical Staff under Wellington, the Peninsular (1811); Member of the Army Medical Board; Director of the Army Medical Department (for 34 years) retired (1851); Physician Extraordinary to the King; Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria (1837); Lord Rector of Aberdeen University (1826, 1827 and 1841)
Honours:
Kt 1814; Bt 1830; KCB 1850
Memberships:
FCP (1825)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/03/1816
RelationshipsSon of Colquhoun McGrigor, merchant, of Aberdeen; married (23 June 1810) Mary, daughter of Duncan Grant of Lingeistone, Morayshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1857-1859 vol 9 pp 532-534
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
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/74223678
CodeNA3416
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002878McGrigor, Sir Jamesnd
MC/1/335Letter from [Sir James] McGrigor, [Director General at the] Army Medical Board, to the Royal Society26 October 1831
EC/1815/35McGrigor, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
MC/2/185Letter from [Sir James] McGrigor, 5 Berkely Street, Berkeley Square, to the Royal Society2 October 1835
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
AP/13/11Unpublished paper, 'On the structure of the knee joint in the Echidna setosa and Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Dr [Robert] Knox[1827]
AP/13/11/2Unpublished drawings, knee joints of Echidna setosa and Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by [Robert Knox?][1827]
AP/13/11/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the structure of the knee joint in the Echidna setosa and Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Dr [Robert] Knox[1827]
AP/13/6Unpublished paper, 'Remarks, on an acrid principle pervading several genera of plants' by John FrostMay 1827
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