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Authorised form of nameMurchison; Charles (1830 - 1879)
Dates1830 - 1879
Place of birthJamaica, West Indies
Date of birth26 July 1830
Place of deathHis home, 79 Wimpole Street, London
Date of death23 April 1879
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Norwood cemetery, London
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Aberdeen University; Edinburgh University. MD (1851, Edinburgh)
Career:
Physician to the British Embassy, Turin; Assistant Surgeon in the service of the HEIC and went to India (1853); Professor of Chemistry, Bengal Medical College; returned to London (1855); Senior Physician, London Fever Hospital (1861); Physician, St Thomas's Hospital, London (1871-1879); died suddenly
Memberships:
LRCPE; MRCP (1855); FRCP (1859); Pathological Society (President 1877)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1866
RelationshipsSon of a doctor who left Jamaica and settled in Elgin
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1879 vol 29 pp xxiii-xxv
Notes:
James Paget has signed the election certificate twice
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/34851912
CodeNA7932
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/003214Murchison, Charles1875
CMP/1/1Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society1 December 1832
EC/1866/08Murchison, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/7/338Letter from Charles Murchison, 79 Wimpole Street, London, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society6 June 1866
MC/7/359Letter from [Charles] Murchison, 79 Wimpole Street, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]6 October 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
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