William Wright ( 1735 - 1819 )

Birth: Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland (March 1735) Death: Edinburgh (19 September 1819) Burial: Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh Education: MD (St Andrews, in absentia) Career: Joined the Navy as Surgeon's mate; Surgeon General, Jamaica (1774); Stayed with Dr Maxwell Garthshore FRS (1775) on his return to London in 1777; worked at Kew; Regimental Surgeon to the Jamaica Regiment (1779); Physician to Sir Ralph Abercrombie's expedition to the West Indies (1795); knew Joseph Banks.