George Leonard Staunton ( 1737 - 1801 )

Birth: Cargin, County Galway, Ireland (10 or 19 April 1737) Death: Devonshire Street, Portman Square, London (14 January 1801) Burial: Westminster Abbey, London Profession: Physician Education: Jesuit College, Toulouse; MD (1758) School of Medicine, Montpelier; DCL (1790, Oxford) Career: Practised as a Physician, West Indies; Attorney General, Grenada; Member of the Council; Colonel of Militia; Aide-de-camp to Governor Macartney of Grenada; helped negotiate a peace treaty with Ippoo Sultan (1792), for which he received life anuity of £500 from the HEIC and was created Baronet; Secretary to Ambassador Macartney FRS (1792) Honours: Bt 1785 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 15/02/1787.