Taunton, Richard ♂

Education

M.D. 20.6.1800 on testimonials signed by J. Wood M.D., Newcastle and G. Cayley M.D., London.

Birth/childhood

(Possibly born 8.12.1772 son of Richard Taunton, Redruth and Jane [Michell].)

Career

At Graduation was of the Cornwall Light Dragoons and about 30 years of age. He had just returned home from Newcastle with the regiment as it was about to be disbanded. [Soldier]

Physician to Cornwall Infirmary, Truro in 1822, when he signed testimonial. According to a note in printed list of M.D.s he received degree without exam, but this note is misplaced and should belong to Alfred Swaine Taylor. [Doctor]

Sources

• Does not appear in W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917)