Surgeon William Paton
23 Apr 1775 – 24 Jan 1844 [Fife]
Service Record
26 Dec 1794 Regimental Mate.
25 Dec 1796 Assistant Surgeon 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot.
26 Feb 1801 Surgeon 13th (First Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot.
2 Dec 1801 Arrived from Egypt.
1802 On duty with his regiment.
30 Jan 1803 Left for Gibraltar.
28 Aug 1806 Half-pay.
4 June 1807 Surgeon Recruiting District.
25 Sep 1814 Retired on half-pay.
24 Jan 1844 Died a bachelor, on his estate of Durham, Torryburn, Fife. His two brothers, also doctors, had joined the East India Company.1
Bibliography
- Entry No: 1582. Johnston W. Roll of Commissioned Offices in the Medical Service of the British Army. Vol 1 (20 June 1727-23 June 1898), Aberdeen (1917).
- TNA:WO 25/3897, Records of Service - Officers of the Medical Department (1790–1847).
- 1Ackroyd M, Brockliss L, Moss M, Retford K, Stevenson J. Advancing with the Army. Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790–1850 p 256 (Oxford 2006).