Free Settler or Felon
John Mortimer R. N.,
Convict Ship Surgeon-Superintendent
Date of Seniority Royal Navy 17 February 1806
John Mortimer was stationed at Antigua in 1809[1]. He was Surgeon at the hospital at Martinique in 1810[2]; and Surgeon to the Naval Hospital at Barbados in 1814 [3]
1816 - 1817
Employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Fame to New South Wales, arriving in Port Jackson on 8th March 1817.
1820
He was practising at Torrington.......Extract of a letter from Mr. Mortimer, an able Practitioner in Torrington, and late Surgeon of the Naval Hospital at Barbados.[4]
1829
John Mortimer was on the List of Gentlemen who passed their Surgical Examinations at Edinburgh
1831
Employed as Surgeon to the Haslar Hospital[5]
1840
Appointed Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on 22 August 1840 (Haslar Hospital)
1846
Appointed Medical Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets on 9th November 1846[6]
1856
John Mortimer died at Gosport age 74 on 20 April 1856 [7]
References
[1] The code of health and longevity By Sir John Sinclair[2] Naval Chronicle
[3] The Navy List
[4] The London Medical Repository, Monthly Journal, and Review, Volume 13
[5] The Lancet
[6] Navy List
[7] Gentleman's Magazine