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Alexander Bryson
Family Name:	Bryson	Variant Spellings:	Baison
Given Names:	Alexander
DOB	1802 approx	DOD	12 December 1869
Place of Birth:		Place of Death:	Barnes, Surrey, England
Age at Death:	67
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Qualifications:	LFPS Glasgow 1825 MD Glasgow 1837 FFPS Glasgow 1867	Speciality:
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Voyages:	"Marquis of Hastings" from England arr. Sydney 25 November 1842 "Eagle" dep. Sydney for London 21 February 1843
Came out as:	Surgeon on convict ship
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Addresses:	Hobart, VDL 1842 (shipping record) Sydney, NSW 1842 (shipping record) London, England 1859 (Medical Register)
Positions Held:	Surgeon RN 1836 Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets Director General Naval Medical Department 1864-1869 Honorary Physician to HM Queen
Publications:	Climate and Principal Disease of the West Africa Station, 1857
Notes:	In some newspaper reports of 1842 his name is given as 'Baison' FRS 1854
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References:	Bateson C. Convict ships. Glasgow, 1959 Addison WI. Roll of the graduates of the University of Glasgow, 1898 [MD 1837, DG Navy Medical Department etc died 12 December 1869] Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration UK, 1860 [registered 1859 Admiralty, London, LFPSG 1825 MD Glasgow 1837] Obituary. Medical directory 1871 Concise dictionary of national biography, Oxford 1930 [Alexander Bryson 1802-1869 medical writer educated Edinburgh, Glasgow, Surgeon RN 1827 Director-general naval medicine 1864] List of Past Fellows of the Royal Society accessed online 2019 [died Barnes, Surrey 12 December 1868, CB, elected FRS 1854] Shipping intelligence. Sydney Morning Herald 26 November 1842 Clearances. Sydney Morning Herald 21 February 1843
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