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Alexander Nisbet (Royal Navy officer)

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On 12 December 1854, at Arley, Staffordshire, he married Lucy Susannah Davenport, daughter of the Rev. E.S. Davenport. In 1855, Nisbet was appointed Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets at
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In January 1830 Nisbet decided to return to Australia on the Asia to work as assistant commissioner for the
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and served in Cornwallis. In 1844 Nisbet became deputy director of Hospitals at
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in 1873 and later that year he was knighted by Prime Minister
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In 1841 Nisbet was included on the list of surgeons for the
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to Australia, and as HM Inspector of Hospitals for the
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He died of "natural decay" at his home Arley Lodge in
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Sir Alexander Nisbet
naval surgeon
convict transports
Royal Navy
Oldhamstocks
East Lothian
Royal Navy Medical Service
American War
University of Edinburgh
Australian Agricultural Company
Royal Navy
Greenwich
Haslar Royal Hospital
Honorary Physician
Queen Victoria
William Ewart Gladstone
Lee, London
Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries









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