Educated at the Royal College of Surgeons and Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Glasgow. He was a Surgeon in the Navy, and died in retirement at his residence, Northland Row, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, in 1879 or 1880.

The son of Robert McCormick, a Surgeon in the Royal Navy; born at Runham, near Great Yarmouth, on July 22nd, 1800, of an Irish family long settled in Co Tyrone. He was a pupil at the United Borough Hospitals in 1821, and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Surgeon in 1823. He served in the West I