Obituary Notices. 
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Dr Andrew Graham, R.N. By John Romanes, S.S.C. 
(Read January 20, 1890.) 
Another of our Fellows has gone to his rest. Dr Andrew Graham, 
Fleet Surgeon, Retired, died at his residence at the Albany, Piccadilly, 
London, on the 1st December 1889, in the 73rd year of his age. He 
was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London. 
He came of a family of medical practitioners. His grandfather, Dr 
Andrew Graham, settled in Dalkeith upwards of a century ago, and 
after some forty years of extensive practice, died in 1824, leaving five 
sons, four of whom were graduates in medicine in the Edinburgh 
School. The eldest of these, Dr Walter Graham, the father of the 
subject of the present notice, assisted his father for many years, and 
died of fever contracted in practice at Dalkeith in 1827, while the 
subject of our notice was but a boy of about ten years of age. After 
passing the earlier stages of his education, the latter prosecuted his 
studies at the University of Edinburgh. At the medical classes he 
was a diligent and successful student, and in 1837 became a licentiate 
of the Royal College of Surgeons. In the following year he graduated 
as doctor of medicine ; and shortly thereafter, on the 19th November 
1838, he entered the service of his Queen and country as an assistant 
surgeon in the Royal Navy. He became staff surgeon on 27th July 
' 1847, and fleet surgeon on 22nd June 1864 ; and, after a full period 
of service, retired (with retired pay) on 1st April 1870. 
He served for some time in the Mediterranean and East Indies ; 
and during the Russian war he served as surgeon on board the flag 
ship in the Baltic, under Admiral Sir Charles Napier. At a later 
date he served in the West Indies in H.M.S. “Agamemnon,” under 
Captain Thomas Hope, Pinkie. 
He received the Baltic medal, and also Sir Gilbert Blane’s gold 
medal. 
Wherever he served, he proved himself an able and accomplished 
navy surgeon, admirably cool in danger, and attentive, both in times 
of peace and war, to the health and welfare of those under his care. 
He was of a quiet unassuming disposition, and endeared himself 
by his goodness of heart to all who were acquainted with him. He 
died a bachelor ; but though many of his friends had gone before, 
he is survived by many — friends, relatives, brother officers, and 
fellows — who will sincerely mourn his loss. 
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