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Name
  
John Millingen


Role
  
Author

Died
  
1862, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
Curiosities of medical experience, The history of duelling, The Army Medical Officer's, Aphorisms on the Treatmen, Stories of Torres Vedras

John Gideon Millingen (1782–1862) was a British army surgeon and author. He was the brother of James Millingen and an uncle of Julius Michael Millingen.

Born in Westminster of Irish and Dutch parents, Millingen was educated in Paris where he achieved his medical degree. He became an assistant surgeon in the British Army in 1802, serving in the Peninsular War and won a medal at Waterloo and the surrender of Paris. He retired in 1823 and was appointed as a physician to the military asylum at Chatham and Hanwell.

Works

  • The Bee-hive (1818), a musical farce
  • Ladies at Home, or Gentlemen, We Can Do Without You (1819)
  • The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried (1827)
  • Who'll Lend Me a Wife? (1834)
  • The Miser's Daughter (1835)
  • Borrowed Feathers (1836)
  • Sketches of Ancient and Modern Boulogne (1826) (Prose)
  • Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, 3 vol. (1830)
  • Stories of Torres Vedras, 3 vol. (1839)
  • The History of Duelling (1841)
  • Recollections of Republican France from 1790 to 1801 (1848)
  • References

    John G. Millingen Wikipedia