Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E002956 - Piper, Samuel Ayrault (1785 - 1867)
Title:
Piper, Samuel Ayrault (1785 - 1867)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002956
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-10-10
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Piper, Samuel Ayrault (1785 - 1867), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Piper, Samuel Ayrault
Date of Birth:
13 March 1785
Place of Birth:
Penzance
Date of Death:
19 January 1867
Place of Death:
Richmond, Surrey
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS April 18th 1806
FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844
MD Glasgow 1830
Details:
Born at Penzance on March 13th, 1785. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Army on July 15th, 1805, but on joining HM 30th Foot without leave of the HEIC he was discharged in 1807. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 30th Foot on December 27th, 1806; promoted Surgeon to the 83rd Foot on February 20th, 1823, transferred to the 30th Foot on November 18th, 1830, and to the Provincial Battalion on December 5th, 1832. He served in the Third Maratha, Pindari, or Deccan Campaign, 1817-1818, was placed on half pay on December 22nd 1846, and then from June 25th, 1852, for six years was on full pay as Surgeon to the Military Prison, Fort Clarence. He was one of the twenty-nine officers of the IMS admitted to the Fellowship on August 26th, 1844. He died at 4 Sussex Villas, Cambridge Road, Richmond, Surrey, on January 19th, 1867.
Sources:
Crawford's *History of the Indian Medical Service*, I, 508
Johnston's *RAMC Roll*, No. 2704
The list of Fellows elected in 1844 is in the *Lancet*, 1844, ii, 108
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/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999
Media Type:
Unknown
