Lightfoot, Samuel

Education

M.D. 5.11.1825 on testimonials signed by Robert Hooper M.D., Saville Row, and John Horridge Green M.D., Manchester Street, London and William Babington M.D., Aldermanbury.

Career

Hospital assistant, Army Medical Service 1826. Assistant surgeon 1826. Transferred to Honorable East India Company['s] Service as Assistant surgeon 1828. Surgeon 1845. Invalided 1846. [Doctor, soldier]

Death

Died near Calcutta [now Kolkata, India] 29.1.1848.

Sources

  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 4156
  • D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) B 1136