Sir John Liddell,
KCB,
FRS (1794 – 28 May 1868) was a Scottish medical doctor who served as Director-General of the Medical Department of the
Royal Navy (30 April 1855 – 21 January 1864),[1] and senior medical officer of the
Royal Hospital at
Greenwich.[2]
Succeeding
Sir William Burnett, his time as Director-General coincided with the
Crimean War, which brought him into contact with
Florence Nightingale with whom he was subsequently in occasional contact regarding hospital design; at his request, Nightingale inspected
Haslar Hospital in January 1857, and he later accompanied her on a visit to
Chatham hospital.[11]
Liddell died at his London home at 72
Chester Square,[12] and was buried on 2 June 1868 in the Greenwich Hospital's cemetery[2] (today
East Greenwich Pleasaunce). In 1837, Liddell had married Fanny, daughter of Robert Clement Sconce; a great-grandson was the writer
Robert Liddell.[13][14][15]
References
^The organisation of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy, in William Loney RN - Victorian naval surgeonhttp://www.pdavis.nl/Ranks.htm (accessed: 19 June 2012)