Dates: | 1844, 4 September - 1895, 26 November | Born: | Ireland, Longford, Edgeworthstown | Died: | England, Kent, West Malling |
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John Falconer, British Library A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia | Amateur, India (Andaman Islands)
Son of Parke Dobson MD of Killinagh, Westmeath; educated at Royal School, Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1866, MB and M.CH. 1867, MA 1875, Member of Senate 1875-95); Assistant Surgeon, British Army 1868; Surgeon, 1875; Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, 1888; retired 1888. Served in Zulu War 1879; sometime in charge of the Museum of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley
Surgeon in the British Army. Assistant Surgeon, 1868. Made a number of ethnographical studies of Andaman Islands in 1872.
Author: Medical hints to travellers (Royal Geographical Society, 6th edition, 1889); Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera (London, Indian Museum, 1876); On the Andamans and Andamanese (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. 4, 1875, pp. 457-68)
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