William Somerville

(1771-1860)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Somerville, William, 1771-1860 NRA: Somerville William (1771-1860) Physician DNB: Somerville, William (1771-1860), military surgeon LBT ID: WiSomer1860 VIAF ID: 72172291 LOC ID: no2011029398	B/BAP: 1771-04-22 DIED: 1860-06-25
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Scottish physician, son of the historian Thomas Somerville and friend of Sir John Barrow and John Murray, husband of the writer Mary Fairfax Somervillle; he was physician to Chelsea Hospital (1819-38).
REFERENCES TO William Somerville: William Taylor of Norwich to Walter Scott, 14 December 1796 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 John Murray to William Napier, 18 January 1828 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 James Fenimore Cooper to Samuel Rogers, 19 January 1831 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 8 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 1: ¶ n1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 4 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1828-1830. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 67 Chap. XXIX. Chap. XXXIII. Found 2: ¶ 22 ¶ 25 Chap. XXXV. Found 1: ¶ 10