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Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont

1833–88

Physician and military surgeon. MD, Edinburgh, 1853; LRCS 1853; FRCS 1864. Assistant surgeon with the Army Medical Department, 1854; surgeon, 1865, surgeon-major, 1876. Served with the Rifle Brigade in the Crimea in 1855. Assistant professor of military hygiene, Army Medical School, Netley hospital, 1863–76; professor, 1876–88.

Sources

Edinburgh Academy register, 1914

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Edinburgh Academy register: The Edinburgh Academy register. A record of all those who have entered the school since its foundation in 1824. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Academical Club. 1914.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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