Boyd, George Frederick

Education

M.A. and M.D. 26.11.1763 on testimonials signed by John Pringle and John Armstrong late physician to the British Army in Germany.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1735.

Career

Surgeon 20th Foot 1756. Apothecary, Germany 1761. Served in Seven Years War and American War of Independence. [Doctor, soldier]

Death

Died at Basingstoke 6.5.1801.

Sources

  • UYUY350
  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 462
  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
  • Gentleman's Magazine 59 373