Dobson, Richard ♂

Education

M.D. 13.12.1824 on testimonials signed by William Beatty M.D. and James Domville M.D., Surgeon R.N., Greenwich Hospital.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1774 possibly Yorkshire.

Career

Apprenticed 1791 to Francis Pearson, surgeon, Kirkby Lonsdale. Studied Edinburgh University 1822-1824.

L.R.C.P.L. 1824.

Surgeon Royal Navy 17.2.1797. Chief Medical Officer, Greenwich 1824 - 1844. Inspector of Fleets and Hospitals 1840. Retired 1844. F.R.S. [Doctor]

Knighted 1831.

Death

Died 1.9.1847 aged 73 in London.

Sources

• Public Record Office - Admiralty Records 104/11 -29
• Munk's Roll iii 299
• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• Gentleman's Magazine 1847 ii 541, 1848 i 214
• United Service Journal1847 iii 318
• Annual Register 1847 249