Smith, Wyville ♂

Education

M.D. 29.3.1786 on testimonials signed by James Hunter M.D. and Charles Webster M.D., Edinburgh.

Birth/childhood

Born 15.8.1757 son of William Smith, Edinburgh and Anne Drummond.

Career

Apprenticed 1774 to Thomas Hay, surgeon apothecary, Edinburgh. [Surgeon apothecary]

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1773-1778, 1785-1786.

Dip. R.C.S.E. 21.5.1777.

Surgeon Army Medical Service, Royal Artillery 1783 etc. Retired on half pay 1813. [Doctor]

Death

Died at Bonside near Linlithgow 21.2.1826.

Sources

• W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 1043
• Dundee Advertiser 4.1.1827