GeorgeThomson R.N., Convict Ship Surgeon-Superintendent Date of Seniority Royal Navy 1 January 1814
George Thomson was appointed Assistant-Surgeon to the Daedalus in 1810. [1] He was appointed Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 1 January 1814 and as entered in the Navy List of Medical Officers in that year. [2]
SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT
George Thomson was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on two convict ship voyages to Australia:
By the entry at Oxnam Monumental Inscriptions By Elizabeth Leitch, Joanne Burns & Davina Smart, he may have died at Port Mahon, Minorca, on 17 June 1834 aged 43 years. Cholera ravaged the population in Port Mahon in 1834 [3]