MILROY

Gavin . b. Edinburgh 1805; ed. at Edinb. high school and univ., M.D. July 1828; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1847, F.R.C.P. 1853; a general practitioner in London; co-editor of Johnson’s Medico-Chirurgical Review 1844–7; superintendent medical inspector general board of health 1849–50 and 1853–5; sent by colonial office to Jamaica 1851; member of sanitary commi ion sent out to British army in the Crimea 1855–6, drew up with John Sutherland the report of its transactions; medical commi ioner in the West Indies 1871–2; one of chief founders of Epidemiological Society 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of Quarantine and the plague 1846; The cholera not to be arrested by quarantine 1847; The health of the royal navy 1862. d. 21 Church road, Richmond, Surrey 11 Jany. 1886. bur. Kensal Green cemet.; bequeathed £2000 to Royal college of physicians for endowment of a lectureship on state medicine and public health.