Edward Nicholson
1839–1920
Surgeon and ophiologist. MRCS (England), 1860. Army Medical Department; surgeon to the Royal Artillery; surgeon major, 1881. Stationed in Burma and Madras, India. Retired by 1891. Working for the Alfred Booth Steamship Company, 1901. Died in France. Wrote on Indian snakes.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/12/149/1), 1881 (RG11/157/67/3), 1891 (RG12/2876/70/21), 1901 (RG13/3419/2/32)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)
Johnston 1917
Medical directory 1873
Liverpool, England, crew lists 1861–1919 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 November 2017)
Nicholson 1874.
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Johnston, William. 1917. Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army, who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 20 June 1727 to 23 June 1898. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
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Nicholson, Edward. 1874. Indian snakes. An elementary treatise on ophiology with a descriptive catalogue of the snakes found in India and the adjoining countries. 2d edition. Madras: Higginbotham and Co.
