Talk:Surgeon-General (United Kingdom)

Gimlette

How long has this office existed? Only since 1991?

I ask because Gimlet (cocktail) tells me: "Another theory is that the drink was named after British Royal Navy Surgeon General Sir Thomas D. Gimlette, KCB (served 1879 to 1913), who allegedly introduced this drink as a means of inducing his messmates to take lime juice as an anti-scurvy medication".

Was Gimlette's office a different one with a similar name, or do we need to develop a longer list of Surgeons-General than the one we have now? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:25, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I think this office belonged much earlier than 1991: perhaps with a different function: see for example the Royal Army Medical CollegeCj1340 (talk) 22:23, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Acting Surgeon General

After Walker is Major General Martin Bricknell

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services#hq-surgeon-general

"The acting Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"

Sammartinlai (talk) 03:41, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Now he's Surgeon General

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services

"The Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"

Sammartinlai (talk) 12:39, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Back to Acting Surgeon General

https://minhalexander.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/air-vice-marshal-alastair-reid-letter-to-henrietta-hughes-7.02.2019-20190207-sg_ltr_hughes.pdf

BlueD954 (talk) 12:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Earlier Surgeon-Generals

Some names for earlier Surgeon-Generals (there was a sort-of-gap from 1810 to 1874):

• John Knight 1664-1680
• Paul Buissière 1689 (to the British forces in Ireland)
• Robert Adair 1786-1790
• John Hunter 1790-1793
• John Gunning 1793-1798
• Thomas Keate 1798-
• James McGrigor 1811-
• James Mouat 1864-

See also here. Carcharoth (talk) 00:24, 31 December 2022 (UTC)