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James Pattison Walker

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Agra Central Prison. During the 1857 uprising, he had to hold Agra, making use of Sikh prisoners to assist him. At Shahgunge Fort he served as a Sanitary Officer until 1858. The increased number of prisoners from the "mutiny" had to be accommodated elsewhere and the Penal Colony in the Andamans was chosen and Walker appointed as the Superintendent. More than 10,000 prisoners were sent to the colony each year where they were subject to forced labour, starvation and abysmal conditions leading to high degree mortality and suicides. Those who attempted to flee the colony and were caught were summarily executed under Pattison’s orders. There were other incidents such as the
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He joined the Bengal Medical Service on 5 April 1845. He worked in Bengal, the North-West Provinces and Punjab and became a Civil Surgeon at Hamirpur in 1848. In 1851 he was Superintendent of the Agra jail. In 1855-56 he examined penal institutions in England and sought to make improvements at the
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until 1866 followed by the post of medical charge with the Bengal Sappers and Miners (until 1872). He then became Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals in the Allahabad Circle, serving until 1877 when he was made Surgeon General.
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to which he also donated his library of books and manuscripts. An island in Galathea Bay, north of Parsons Point, once called Walker Island, was marked by a block of grey rock that appeared like a fortress.
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in 1863. A voracious reader, he amassed a large private library. He died at his home in Earlsmead and left in his Will, a donation of $ 30,000 to the
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology
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Index

Clacton-on-Sea
Indian Medical Service
1857 rebellion
Penal Settlement
Andamans
King's College, Aberdeen
Battle of Aberdeen
Calcutta Medical College
W.H. Benson
Lloyd Library, Cincinnati
"Survivors of our hell"
"Service Notes"
"Obituary. Surgeon-General James Pattison Walker, M.D."
doi
10.1136/bmj.1.2364.954
PMC
2381082
"Characters of new land-shells of the genera Helix, Clausilia, and Spiraxis, from the Andamans, Moulmein, Northern India, and Ceylon"
doi
10.1080/00222936308681386
"The Lloyd Library"
In the Andamans and Nicobars
Bay of Bengal Pilot
Categories
Indian Medical Service officers
1823 births
1906 deaths

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