Stark, James

Education

Student United College 1764-1768 h, h, [ ]. (Secondar). Wilkie bursar, 1765. Chancellor’s prize, Rhetoric class, 1767.

M.D. 1.12.1783.

Birth/childhood

Born 11.1.1749 son of Thomas Stark, minister at Balmerino and Helen Bruce.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - medical student 1768 - 1770.

Assistant surgeon Indian Medical Service, Bengal 1773. Surgeon 1778. Resigned 1788 with leave to return. Struck off 1793. [Doctor]

Of Kingsdale. Brother in law of Professor Wilson.

Presented £25 to University in 1789 for books.

Death

Still alive 1803.

Sources

  • UYUC110 Wilkie
  • UYUC400:5.2.1765, 6.4.1767
  • D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) B 195