John G. Millingen

John Gideon Millingen (1782–1862) was an army surgeon and author. Born in Westminster of Irish and Dutch parents; Millingen was educated in Paris where he achieved his medical degree. He became an assistant surgeon in British Army in 1802, serving in the Peninsular War and won a medal at Waterloo and the surrender of Paris. He retired in 1823 and was appointed as a physician to the military asylum at Chatham and Hanwell.


 * Works


 * The Bee-hive(1818) (A musical farce)
 * Ladies at Home, or Gentlemen, We Can Do Without You (1819)
 * The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried (1827)
 * Who’ll Lend Me a Wife? (1834)
 * The Miser’s Daughter (1835)
 * Borrowed Feathers (1836)
 * Sketches of Ancient and Modern Boulogne (1826) (Prose)
 * Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, 3 Vol. (1830)
 * Stories of Torres Vedras, 3 Vol. (1839)
 * The History of Duelling (1841)
 * Recollections of Republican France from 1790 to 1801 (1848)