Sir John McNeill

(1795-1883)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: McNeill, John Sir, 1795-1883 NRA: McNeill Sir John (1795-1883) Knight diplomatist and surgeon DNB: McNeill, Sir John (1795-1883), diplomatist and surgeon LBT ID: JoMcNei1883 VIAF ID: 102404195 LOC ID: nb2004307900	B/BAP: 1795 DIED: 1883-05-17
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Son of John McNeill of Colonsay; he was surgeon for the East India Company in Bombay (1816-36), afterwards minister to the Shah of Persia (1836) and chairman of the supervisory board of the Scottish Poor Act (1845-78).
REFERENCES TO Sir John McNeill: Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 30 March 1835 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 22 September 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 2 February 1848 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXII. Found 1: ¶ n1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43 Chapter 21: 1842-50