Dictionary of Indian Biography/Beatson, George Steward

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BEATSON, GEORGE STEWARD ( ? –1874)

M.D. Glasgow, 1836: entered the Army Medical Department, 1838; served in Ceylon, 1839–51: in the Burmese war of 1852: the Crimea, Ionian Islands, Madras: Surgeon-General in India and P.M.O. of European troops, 1863–8, and again, 1871–4: was in charge of Netley Hospital 1868–71: Honorary Physician to the Queen: C.B. 1869: died at Simla, June 7, 1874.