Ballingall, George

Education

Student United College 1799-1800 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1800-1801 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Jun. 1801-1802 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics; Hist. Civ. 1802-1803 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Physics (Secondar)

Yeaman bursar 9.11.1799.

Birth/childhood

Born 2.5.1786 son of Robert Ballingall, minister at Forglen and Elizabeth Simpson.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - medical student 1803-1806. L.R.C.S.E. 17.12.1805.

Assistant surgeon Army medical service 1806. Retired on half pay 1818. Professor of Military Surgery, Edinburgh University 1823 - 1855. [Doctor, university professor]

Kt. [Knight bachelor] 1830. F.R.S. London and Edinburgh.

Publications

Introductory Lectures to a Course of Military Surgery (Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1830)

Outlines of Military Surgery (Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1855)

etc.

 

Death

Died at Blairgowrie 4.12.1855.

Sources

  • DNB
  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 2629