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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Fayrer    
First Name(s)  Joseph    
Titles   Sir, Baronet     
Year of Birth  1821    
Entry  Born Dec. 6, 1824 : son of Commander Robert J. Fayrer, R.N. : educated at King's College, London and Edinburgh : M.D., 1859 : entered the Bengal medical service, 1850 : served in the first Burmese war, throughout the Indian mutiny, and defence of Lucknow, where he was Residency Surgeon from Aug. 1853 : and Civil Surgeon : Professor, Medical College, Calcutta : Surgeon-General : Fellow of the Calcutta University : President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1867 : C.S.I., 1867 : President, Medical Board, India Office, 1874-95 : accompanied H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh on his Indian tour, 1869-70, and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on his Indian tour, 1875-6 : author of The Thanatophidia of India : of many medical works on Tropical Diseases : Life of Sir Ranald Martin, C.B., Recollections of My Life, etc. : K.C.S.I. : first Baronet, 1896 : Physician Extraordinary to H.M. the King since 1901 : F.R.C.P. : F.R.S. : LL.D., Edinburgh : Member of many foreign Medical Academies : and President and Member of Medical Societies in England.     
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