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Medicine graduate from St Andrews. Received Victoria Cross for his 'valour during the Indian mutiny.'

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D.O.B: 30 November 1826, Dunbar, East Lothian D.O.D: 10 August 1914 (77 years old), Kensington, London

Education: • University of St Andrews ¬– Medicine (MD 1848) (Professional) Role in St Andrews: • Student of medicine Years in St Andrews: Graduated 1848 Involved in which fields of scholarship? (e.g. geology, philosophy and medicine) • Medicine Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship /inventions/… 1: Received Victoria Cross for “valour during the Indian mutiny” • See: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22154/page/2959 Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship/inventions/… 2 : Fought in the New Zealand Wars Awards/Honours: • Victoria Cross • Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Connected to other people in St Andrews or elsewhere?: • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • "..he seemed a most disagreeable old man...and yet when I married shortly afterwards he sent me a most charming message wishing me good fortune..." o from Memories and Adventures, autobiography of Arthur Conan Doyle