George Smyttan

Dr George Smyttan FRSE (1789–1863) was a 19th-century Scottish physician who helped to run the Medical Missionary Society in India.

Life

He was born in Dunkeld on 17 June 1789. He was educated at Dunkeld Grammar School.

He studied Medicine at St Andrews and Edinburgh but received his doctorate (MD) from Aberdeen University. He was licensed as a surgeon by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1808 (aged 19) he began work as a Surgeon for the East India Company based in Bombay in India rising to be Head of the Medical Board for the Bombay district. He returned to Scotland in 1839 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1841. His proposer was Robert Christison.[1]

In Edinburgh he lived and practiced from 20 Melville Street in the West End of the city.[2]

He appears to also have had property in Ross & Cromarty and was an elder of the Free Church of Scotland in Tain.[3] He also retained property at Birnam near Dunkeld.

He had a seizure in September 1854 which left him paralysed. He died at Canaan Park (a villa he purchased in 1860) in south Edinburgh on Christmas Day 25 December 1863.[4]

Family

His wife (a Miss Hunt) is later referred to simply as Mrs Smyttan.[5]

His sister Jane Smyttan married Dandeson Coates Bell[6]

His son, Rev George Hunt Smyttan (1824-1870), married Frances Hardy Grey.[7]

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References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1845
  3. Acts of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1843 to 1847
  4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh vol.5
  5. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1865
  6. https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=74302&scrwidth=800
  7. http://milfieldgreys.co.uk/5_george_annett/sibs/frances_hardy.html


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