William Aurelius (Aurelius) Harland
1822–58
Scholar and physician. Trained in Edinburgh. Married Mary Ann Foster, a servant, and left for Hong Kong in 1846. Resident surgeon of the Victoria Seamens’ Hospital, Hong Kong. Contributed studies on Chinese medicine and physiology to the Royal Asiatic Society.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1266/4/33/5)
London Church of England parish registers P90/PAN1/088 (Ancestry.com, accessed 25 August 2022)
Modern English biography
wellcomecollection.org/works/qw9uy97y, accessed 25 August 2022
Bibliography
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.
