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Asset Name:
E001440 - Doratt, Sir John ( - 1863)
Title:
Doratt, Sir John ( - 1863)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E001440
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-10-05

2013-08-08
Description:
Obituary for Doratt, Sir John ( - 1863), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Doratt, Sir John
Date of Death:
1863
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
Knight Bachelor, 1838

Member of the Corporation of Surgeons March 19th 1795

FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844

MD Leyden 1805
Details:
John Doratt, a pupil of John Hunter, practised in Bruton Street, in Brussels, for many years in Paris, and then again in London. His address was for a long time in Pall Mall, and then, after various changes of residence, he settled at 4 St Martin's Place. He was twice an Embassy Physician, accompanying the first Earl of Durham to Russia in 1835-1837, and to Canada in 1838. He received the honour of knighthood at St James's Palace on February 14th, 1838. He died in 1863 at the age of 91 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. There is a manuscript in the College (Stone Collection) written by Sir John Doratt which gives an account of an embalming "performed by Mr Home, myself acting as Assistant: the Body was an Earl of Moira, all under the immediate direction of Mr John Hunter". His name is spelt Dorat in the French manner in the *Medical Directory*.
Sources:
Shaw's *The Knights of England*, London, 1906, ii, 339
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/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
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