Background
MEADOWS, Robert Wyatt was born on August 10, 1832. Son of Reverend F. W. Meadows.
MEADOWS, Robert Wyatt was born on August 10, 1832. Son of Reverend F. W. Meadows.
Studied at University College, London. Doctor of Medicine.
Assistant Surgeon, 9th (Norfolk) Regiment. Campaign in Crimea, 1854-1856 (medal and clasps). Surgeon and Surgeon-Major, 68tli Durham Light Infantry.
Received special thanks of Duke of Cambridge for services during severe epidemic of cholera in India. Attached to 60tli Royal Rifies, Afghanistan Campaign, 1879-1880. Principal medical officer, 3rd Division, Afghanistan, march from Kandahar to Cabul under Sir D. Stewart.
Battles of Kiel and Urzoo (medal and clasp, despatches). Div. Surgeon-General, India, and Western Command, England. Surgeon - Major-General, Gibraltar.
Sometime Lecturer on Histology and Microscopical Anatomy, University College, of Queen’s Kingston, Canada. Retired pay (army).
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Club : Royal Western Yacht.
Fishing, yachting, music.
Surgeon-Major-General.