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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Surname  Roxburgh    
First names  Wm.    
Rank/ occupation  Chief Botanist (& Surgeon)    
Unit  EIC (& Madras Establishment)    
Death date  1815    
Place of death  Edinburgh    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  May 1815    
Page number  476    
Detail  SCOTLAND. At Edinburgh, Wm. Roxburgh, M.D. F.L.S. chief botanist to the East India Company, surgeon on the Madras establishment, and many years superintendant of the Company's garden at Calcutta. He was the intimate friend and pupil of the celebrated König, and, with Sir Wm. Jones, Mr. Hastings, Lord Teignmouth, and the principal scientific characters in Bengal, laid the foundations of the Asiatic Society...    
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