Ingham, Samuel

Education

M.A. and M.D. 22.5.1764 on testimonials signed by Thomas Savage M.D. and Michael Morris M.D., F.R.S.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1730. Possibly baptised 28.4.1726 son of George Ingham, Leigh, Lancs. [Leigh, Lancashire] and Jane [ ].

Career

Apprenticed to William Dawson, apothecary, Leeds. [Apothecary]

Surgeon Indian Medical Service Bengal, April 1765. Surgeon to Lord Clive when appointed Governor of Bengal for the second time. Returned to England January, 1767. [Doctor]

Death

Died 18.5.1770.

Sources

  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
  • D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) B 114
  • Gentleman's Magazine 1770 p279
  • LM 1770 p386