Keir, George ♂

Education

M.D. 31.8.1796 by examination. Testimonial signed by George Keir of Dupplin, his cousin.

Birth/childhood

Possibly baptised 15.1.1772 son of Laurence Keir, Aberdalgie and Marion Paterson.

Career

Apprenticed to Dr. Wood, Perth.

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1790-1791.

Assistant surgeon Indian Medical Service, Bombay 1797-1812 (retired). [Doctor]

Publications. Of Millearn.

Account of the introduction of the cow pox into India. (Bombay: Printed by Moroba Damotherjee, 1803)

Death

Died Perth 23.8.1818 aged 46.

Sources

• Gentleman's Magazine 1818 ii 378, 1840 i 557
• D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) Bo 269
• Monumental inscription, Tibbermore