George Kingston Barton, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1850. He was the resident surgeon of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O); surgeon of the Government Civil Hospital as well as a private practitioner in 1845. He was listed as a partner in the Victoria Dispensary in 1845 and 1846. He was elected Secretary of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society (vice Benjamin Hobson) in 1845. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch in 1850. Pottinger Street was listed as his address in 1850.
Barton was born in 1815 and was educated in Dublin. He was admitted a member of Royal College of Surgeons on May 7, 1841, and a fellow on December 11, 1856. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the King's College in Aberdeen. Hong Kong ca.1845-ca.1850. He carried on a private practice in England at #5 Windsor Terrace, Bedford in 1871. He went to Shanghai in 1871 to take up his apointment as physician of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs 大清皇家海關總稅務司. He returned to England after Shanghai and settled in Fulbeck, Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1881. He became Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator, Leadenham District, Sleaford Union and Fulbeck District, Newark Union; District Medical Officer to the Great Northern Railway between 1881 and 1890. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Barton died in Fulbeck on July 13, 1890.
He married to Rhoda Dobbs, the eldest daughter of Captain John Dobbs of the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot and Marianne Wallace, in Hong Kong in 1850. She died on August 6, 1908; The marriage bore two daughter and five sons, the youngest of whom was born, a posthumous child, on February 18, 1889. One of the son was James Kingston Barton, born in Hong Kong in 1855. who was also a surgeon. One of the daughters was Louisa Barton, who married Elliott Graham Armstrong, of Emlaroy, Roscommon, in 1893.
Publications: Observations on Hong Kong Fever, the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, 1851, XII, p.335. Report on the Health of Shanghai for the Half-Year Ended 31st March 1871, Customs Gazette, Medical Report, #1, pp.30-32.
[Six medical practitioners were listed in the 1850 Hong Kong Almanack and Directory, arranged according to priority of residence. They were: Peter Young, George Kingston Barton, Thomas Hunter, Andrew Howden Balfour, William T. Morrison and Nicolet Michel Clerjon.]
Selected Bibliography: Barton Database [online]. A Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitioners in Hong Kong:1841-1941 [online]. Genealogy.com [online]. MaPherson, Kerrie L., A Wilderness of Marshes; The Originals of Public Health in Shanghai, 1843-1893, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002. The Peerage [online]. Royal College of Surgeons Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online [online]. Siu, Helen F., Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010, p.306. South Australia Register (Aldelaide), April 29, 1889, p.3. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
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