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E003253 - Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849)
Title:
Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003253
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-12-20
Description:
Obituary for Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Scratchley, James
Date of Birth:
1784
Date of Death:
15 June 1849
Place of Death:
Paris
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS October 7th 1803

FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844

MD Marischal College Aberdeen 1829
Details:
Entered the Ordnance Medical Department (Medical Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance) as Assistant Surgeon on August 1st, 1806, and was promoted Surgeon to the Department on November 11th, 1811. He retired on September 30th, 1826, and then practised in Paris, where he died during the cholera epidemic of 1849, the date of his decease being June 15th. By his marriage with Maria, daughter of Colonel Roberts, commanding the troops in Ceylon, he had thirteen children, of whom the youngest, born in Paris in 1835, was afterwards Major-General Sir Peter Henry Scratchley, KCMG, RE, Special High Commissioner in New Guinea, of whom there is an account in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. Publication: *The London Dissector: or a Compendium of Practical Anatomy*, 12mo, London, 1804; 8th ed. 1832.
Sources:
Johnston's *RAMC Roll*, No 2648
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003200-E003299
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