Johnston, James

Education

M.D. 30.3.1776 on testimonials signed by John Rutherford M.D. and John Gairdner M.D., Edinburgh.

Birth/childhood

Born 1740.

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - 1762-1764, 1765-1766.

Regimental Mate 6th Foot, then surgeon 6th Foot 1767. Surgeon 2nd Dragoons 1769. Retired 1780. [Doctor, soldier]

Death

Died London 6.5.1780.

Sources

  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 744
  • Med. Reg. 1780
  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)