Background
Chermside was born in Portaferry, County Down, the son of surgeon Robert Chermside.
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Robert Chermside
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Career
In 1810, he entered the medical service of the British Army as assistant-surgeon of the 7th Hussars, served in France, Spain, Flanders and was present at the Battle of Waterloo. Immediately after Waterloo, he was promoted to surgeon of the 10th Hussars. In 1821, he was admitted as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and later elected a Fellow in 1836.
He was sometime Physician Extraordinary to the Duchess of Kent and Physician to the British Embassy at Paris.
He was also appointed a Knight of the Order of Street John, a Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle and a Chevalier of the Légion d"honneur. He died at his home in Oxford on 8 September 1860.
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In 1817, he graduated Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and London and the Société de Medicine Pratique in Paris.
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1860 (aged 68)