Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E000945 - Boyes, William Robert (1816 - 1857)
Title:
Boyes, William Robert (1816 - 1857)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000945
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2010-05-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Boyes, William Robert (1816 - 1857), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Boyes, William Robert
Date of Birth:
October 1816
Date of Death:
27 June 1857
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS May 25th 1838
FRCS May 13th 1857
LSA 1838
MD
Details:
Born in October, 1816, the son of William Boyes, merchant, of London. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 1st, 1841, being promoted Surgeon to the 2nd Bengal Calvary on October 8th, 1855. He was officiating Medical Storekeeper at Cawnpore when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and succeeded in escaping from the rebels with his wife. He was recaptured, brought down the river twenty-eight miles, and killed in the massacre on June 27th, 1857. His wife, Catherine, a daughter of General Biggs, HEICS, died of dysentery on July 7th, 1857.
Sources:
*Indian Ann. of Med. Sci.*, 1858, v, 290
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000900-E000999
Media Type:
Unknown
