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Darwin Correspondence Project

Finlay Murchison

1846–1937

Scottish medical practitioner. MA, Edinburgh, 1867; MB 1872. Medical officer for North Harris, 1874–5. Assistant physician, Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, 1876–7. Assistant medical officer, Middlesex Asylum, Banstead Downs, Sutton, Surrey, 1878–85. Medical superintendent, Peckham House Asylum, London, 1886–91. Resident proprietor, Wyke House Asylum, Isleworth, 1892–1929.

Sources

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 March 2014)

Medical directory

Scotland old parish registers births 058-000-0020-0244Z Applecross (supplied by Scotland’s people (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk), 13 November 2014)

Bibliography

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

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