James Brown Gibson
1805–68
Physician. Entered military service in 1826 as a hospital assistant; later promoted to surgeon. Served in the Crimean War. Director-general of the army medical department, 1860–7. Knighted, 1865.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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