J. Ranald Martin
| Sir J. Ranald Martin FRS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1793 | ||||||||
| Died | 1874 | ||||||||
| Residence |
24 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square [1864] 24 Upper Brook Street W.; and Keydell, near Horndean, Hants [1865] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
medical armed services | ||||||||
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..Martin retired from the Indian Medical Service on May 20th, 1842, settled in London, and lived for some time in Grosvenor Street. On March 31st, 1860, being then Physician to the Secretary of State for India, he was nominated one of the seven members of the Senate of the newly established Army Medical School at Fort Pitt, Chatham, and on Oct 31st, 1864, he was appointed President, with the rank of Inspector-General, of the Medical Board of the India Office. He was also a member of the Army Sanitary Commission. Martin resigned his appointments on Nov 17th, 1874, and died of bronchitis ten days later at his house in Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. He married in 1826 a daughter of Colonel Patten, CB.
Founding Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Born in the Isle of Skye, trained at St George’s Hospital and the Windmill Street School of Medicine. Influential Surgeon in the Bengal Army, 1817-1842. He retired to London, was knighted in 1860, and died of bronchitis at Upper Brook Street in 1874. Author of, among other works, On the Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions (1841). See J. Fayrer Inspector-general Sir James Ranald Martin (London: A. D. Innes, 1897). Burton met Martin at Bathurst and mentions him in Wanderings.[172] The extant correspondence suggests they were on friendly terms (see Volume 1). [Tredoux has 1796-1874]
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External Publications
MEMORANDA ON THE STATUS OF THE ARMY MEDICAL OFFICER; AND ON THE SELECTION OF PLANS AND MODELS OF THE BEST BARRACKS AND HOSPITALS.
J.Ranald Martin F.R.S.
Notes on Medical Topography of Calcutta, 1837, Calcutta, 2nd ed, 1839.
On the Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions, 1841; 7th ed., 1856, re-written; 8th ed, 1861.
A View of the Formation, Discipline and Economy of Armies (with JOHN GRANT), London, 1845. It contains an account of Robert Jackson, the famous Army Surgeon (1750-1827).