Lorimer, John

Education

M.A. and M.D. 29.4.1765 on testimonials signed by G. Fordyce M.D. and William Grant M.D., London.

Birth/childhood

Born 1732.

Career

L.R.C.P.E. 3.5.1791. F.R.C.P.E. 2.8.1791. F.R.S.

Surgeon 97th Foot 1761. Retired on half pay 1774. Examining surgeon with Dr. John Hunter to Hon. East India Company Service [Honorable East India Company's Service] 1793. [Doctor, soldier]

Death

Died in London 13.7.1795.

Sources

  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 614
  • BMJ 1.3.1813 p465
  • Scots Mag. Lvii 546
  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)