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Gimlette[edit]

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)[reply]

I think this office belonged much earlier than 1991: perhaps with a different function: see for example the Royal Army Medical College Cj1340 (talk) 22:23, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Acting Surgeon General[edit]

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)[reply]

Now he's Surgeon General[edit]

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)[reply]

Back to Acting Surgeon General[edit]

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)[reply]

Earlier Surgeon-Generals[edit]

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)[reply]