Archibald Gordon, M.D. (1812–3 August 1886) was a Scottish military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals.

Life

Gordon studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD in 1834. He entered the army as assistant-surgeon in 1836, served with the 53rd regiment in the Sutlej campaign of 1846, and in the

Punjab campaign The Second Anglo-Sikh War was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company that took place in 1848 and 1849. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and what subsequently ...

of 1848–9 with the 24th regiment. He became a surgeon in 1848, and surgeon-major in 1854. In the Crimea War he was Principal Medical Officer of the 2nd division throughout the

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, and was made deputy-inspector-general of hospitals (1856), C.B., and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1857 he served as the principal medical officer with the expeditionary force to China in the

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and in the

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. He became inspector-general in 1867 and retired in 1870. He was Honorary Surgeon to the Queen Victoria. He was married to Mary Preston (''née'' Crealock). He died at West Hoathly, Sussex, on 3 August 1886.

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1812 births 1886 deaths 19th-century British people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish surgeons British Army regimental surgeons British Army personnel of the Crimean War Knights of the Legion of Honour British Army personnel of the Second Opium War British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Sikh War British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War {{Scotland-med-bio-stub