Beatson, William Burns ♂

Education

M.D. 7.5.1852 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 11.5.1825 son of John Beatson, Peckham and Christina [ ].

Career

L.S.A. 1846. F.R.C.S.Eng. 1867. F.R.C.P.L. 1901.

Served as a ship’s surgeon then in Indian Medical Service 1852 - 1883, when he retired with rank of surgeon general. Lived first at Bath, then at Eastbourne, where he died 26.4.1911. [Doctor]

Publications

Indian Medical Service Past and Present (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1902)

Death

Lived first at Bath, then at Eastbourne, where he died 26.4.1911.

Sources

• BMJ 1911
• Times 29.4.1911
• D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) B1589
• Plarr's Lives of the Fellows i 73
• Munk's Roll iv 426
• Lancet 1911 i 1317