James Murray Irwin

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please improve this article if you can. (April 2008)

Sir James Murray Irwin
Born	1858 Manorcunningham, County Donegal, Ireland
Died	13 February 1938 Bideford, Devon, England

Major General Sir James Murray Irwin KCMG CB MD BCH (1858–1938), British Army doctor, who served in Sudan, the Boer War and the Great War was born in Manorcunningham, Co. Donegal, Ireland on 13 February 1858.

An outline of his career is as follows:

Autumn 1875	Trinity College Dublin studying medicine
Autumn 1881	Joined Royal Army Medical Corps at Netley
February 1882	Commissioned as Surgeon Captain posted to Dublin
September 1883	Posted to India
26 July 1884	Married Nora Conlan
31 October 1885	Daughter Edna Florine born
1890	Posted to Dublin
Autumn 1891	Posted to Gibraltar
Feb 1894	Promoted Surgeon Major
1897	Posted to Brighton
1898	Posted to Sudan, Medical Officer, Atbara, Battle of Omdurman
1899	Posted to Avenging Expedition in Crete
1899	Medical Officer on troopship HMS Verona
1899	Posted to Dublin
February 1900	Posted to South Africa for the Boer War
February 1902	Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
1903	Posted to Aldershot, Assistant to Surgeon General McNamara
1906	Posted to War Office as Assistant Director General
1910	Posted to Tientsin, North China
December 1911	Promoted Colonel and posted to Hong Kong as Deputy Director of Medical Services, South China
1913	Travelled round the world.
1914	London establishing the new King George V Hospital, Waterloo
1915	France Deputy Director of Medical Services, Rouen
1916	Director of Medical Services 3rd Army
April 1916	Promoted Temporary Surgeon General
1919	Returned to England

After the Great War he retired to Bideford, North Devon where his wife had purchased a house. He died on 7 November 1938 aged 80.

[edit] Sources

Irwin, James Murray (1935). Memoirs of Major General Sir James Murray Irwin. unpublished.
"Obituary of Major General Sir Murray Irwin" (Obituaries). The Times. Tue, 8 Nov 1938. col d, pg. 16.