George Milligan (?–9 March 1799) was a Scottish surgeon.
From Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1753 Milligan became Surgeon to His Majesty's Troops in
South Carolina
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and began practicing medicine in Charleston. He was elected as a member to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1772.
Upon the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War, he served as Surgeon of the
Royal Garrison Battalion
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. A staunch loyalist and servant to the Crown, he reported that a mob harassed him and his wife, and ultimately forced them to escape Charleston in 1775.
He returned to Britain and died in
Dumfries, Scotland
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1799 deaths
Loyalists in the American Revolution from South Carolina
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18th-century Scottish medical doctors
18th-century surgeons