£320
British Army, Medical Staff. Dr. David Milroy, MD, FRCS (1826-1864), of Roxburghshire, seven of his academic degrees, diplomas, and military commissions, dated 1852-56, comprising two army commissions, Crimean War period, Assistant-Surgeon to the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot, and Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, dated 28th April, and 7th April, 1854 respectively, signed in autograph by both Queen Victoria and Lord Palmerston; degree from the University of Edinburgh, dated 30th November, 1852, for his dissertation on the "Influence of Climate on Diseases", letterpress on vellum, signed by the academic hierarchy, sealed; his diplomas from The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1853 & 1856, letterpress and manuscript on vellum, sealed; 1852 Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh studentship certificate, letterpress and manuscript on paper; Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh, midwifery certificate 1853, letterpress and manuscript on paper; plus the 1865 University of Edinburgh degree of William Muir Milroy, various signatures of the university' academic body, fragmentary red wax seal in aluminium case, all eight muniments in three 19th c toleware scroll canisters and covers, (3) (see also 3 preceding lots)
Provenance: By descent in the Milroy family to the present vendor
David Milroy, Medical Staff, was born at Crailing, Roxburghshire, the son of the Reverend Andrew Milroy and his wife Margaret, nee Price in 1831. In the Crimean War he saw service with the Cambridgeshire Regiment at Scutari, from May 1854 and subsequently in Canada. He died of yellow fever at St George’s, Bermuda, on 3rd September 1864. His brother was the Reverend Andrew Milroy (1841-1902).
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