Surgeon General John Wylie CB

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(1790–1852) was a 19th-century Scottish military surgeon.

Life

He was born in

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on 20 May 1790 the son of George Wylie. He trained as a surgeon and in 1812 entered the Madras Army of the

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as an Assistant Surgeon. He saw active service during the

Third Maratha War The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1819) was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy in India. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an invasion of Marath ...

1817/18 and was

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for his actions at the Battle of Corygaum (January 1818). In 1825 he was promoted full Surgeon and gradually rose through the ranks to be firstly Inspector General of all Indian Hospitals in 1846 then Surgeon General of India in 1851. In 1844 he was one of 29 officers in the

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who was elected a

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. In 1850 he was created a Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB) by

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, and was the first medical officer to receive this honour. In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposer was

Andrew Douglas Maclagan Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan PRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA (17 April 1812, in Ayr – 5 April 1900, in Edinburgh) was a Scottish surgeon, toxicologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He served as president of 5 learned societies: the Royal ...

. He died suddenly at his home, Arndean, south of

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, on 16 June 1852. Arndean passed to George Wylie, who was either a son or a nephew. The gardens of Arndean are now open to the public under the Scotland's Gardens Scheme.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wylie, John 1790 births 1852 deaths Medical doctors from Glasgow Scottish surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Military personnel from Glasgow British East India Company Army officers British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Maratha War Indian Medical Service officers