Paterson, George (1734-1817) of Castle Huntly, Forfars

Minute book of the Military Hospital Society, 1764-67, belonging to George Patterson, a member of the Society. With catalogues of the library at Castle Huntly. ff. 5-14. Membership list, minutes, and accounts of the Military Hospital Society. August 1764-March 1767. ff. 18-32, 72-90. Two catalogues of Paterson's library at Castle Huntly, the first undated [c. 1806], the second signed by George Paterson, 29 October 1813.

1813

1 volume 1 volume: 325 × 210 mm., 90 ff. (1-4, 15-17, 33-71 blank). Contemporary calf binding, with a brass lock on the rear cover.

Purchased from Argosy Book Store, New York, 1986.

George Paterson studied medicine at Edinburgh, London and Leiden and served as an army surgeon from 1762 to 1764. The Military Hospital Society was a London dining club. Its members were army physicians and surgeons prominent at the time of the Seven Years War, including Donald Monro, Hugh Alexander Kennedy, Robert Adair and Sir Clifton Wintringham.

Additional to MSS. 864-868, 2480-2485, 3778-3798, 4307-4311, 5405.

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).