Search Results

Sign In Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Format

Type

Articles containing

Sex

Life event

Date

Occupations

Availability

 1-2 of 2 Results  for:

  • naval support services x
  • Armed forces and intelligence services x
  • military medical personnel x
Clear all

Article

Armstrong, Sir Alexander (1818–1899), naval medical officer  

J. K. Laughton

revised by Andrew Lambert

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Armstrong, Sir Alexander (1818–1899), naval medical officer, descended from a family originally of Cumberland, and from Major-General John Armstrong (1673–1742), was born in Donegal, the son of Alexander Armstrong of Croghan Lodge, co. Fermanagh. He studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and at ...

Article

Busk, George (1807–1886), surgeon and naturalist  

B. B. Woodward

revised by Yolanda Foote

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Busk, George (1807–1886), surgeon and naturalist, was born on 12 August 1807 at St Petersburg, the second son of Robert Busk (1768–1835), merchant of St Petersburg, and his wife, Jane, daughter of John Westly, a customs house clerk at St Petersburg. Sir Wadsworth Busk (1730–1811)...