Jeffery Allen Marston (31 December 1831 – 31 March 1911) CB, Hon. FRCS, was
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The title was formerly used within the British National H ...
to the
Indian Army and
honorary surgeon
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It mainly comprises a range of Physicians and Surgeons to the Sovereign and to the Royal Household. None have more than a nominal or occasion ...
to
Queen Victoria and then
King Edward VII.
Early life
Jeffery Marston was born on 31 December 1831 in
Martham
Martham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some north-west of the town of Great Yarmouth and north-east of the city of Norwich.
The villages name means 'marten homestead/village' or 'weasel/marten he ...
,
Norfolk.
He studied at the University of Glasgow, at Newcastle Hospital, and in London,
and graduated with an
M.D. from the
University of St Andrews in 1854.
Career
Marston joined the British Army as an assistant surgeon on 10 November 1854.
In 1863 he was the first to describe
Mediterranean fever. In 1877 he drew up dietary guidelines for military prisons. He became Deputy Surgeons-General in 1882,
became a member of the
Royal College of Physicians of London in 1887, and became a C.B. in 1887 and F.R.C.S.Eng. in 1888.
He served as sanitary officer in the 1882 Egyptian Expedition and was at the
Battle of Tell El Kebir
The Battle of Tel El Kebir (often spelled Tel-El-Kebir) was fought on 13 September 1882 at Tell El Kebir in Egypt, 110 km north-north-east of Cairo. An entrenched Egyptian force under the command of Ahmed ʻUrabi was defeated by a British ...
. He received a number of awards including the third class of the
Order of Osmanieh
The Order of Osmanieh or Order of Osmaniye ( ota, نشانِ عثمانیہ) was a civil and military decoration of the Ottoman Empire.
History
The order was created in January 1862 by Sultan Abdülaziz. With the obsolescence of the Nişan-i If ...
and the
Khedive's Star.
He was principal medical officer to the Indian Army, President of the Army Medical Board, and delegate of the British Government to the
International Medical Congress in Washington.
General Marston retired in 1889 with the rank of
Surgeon General.
He subsequently became honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria and then King Edward VII.
Death
Marston died in his residence in 56 Nevern Square, London on 31 March 1911.
His funeral took place the following Tuesday at
Charlton cemetery.
See also
*
Adrian Marston
References
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Surgeons-General of the British Armed Forces
Companions of the Order of the Bath
19th-century British medical doctors
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
1831 births
1911 deaths
People from Martham