Middleton, Charles (1726-1813), Baron Barham (1805); Comptroller of the Navy

Observations by Charles Middleton, as Comptroller of the Navy, on two reports on conditions at Haslar Hospital, Gosport. The first report was by Admiral [Samuel] Barrington and others, the second by the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded Seamen, in the form of a commentary on Barrington's report.

c. 1780

1 volume Autograph. Partly draft. 9 ff.

Purchased from Francis Edwards, 1978.

Charles Middleton (1726-1813) became Baron Barham in 1805; he was Comptroller of the Navy.

On Barrington's report, see Medicine and the Navy 1200-1900, Vol. 3, by Christopher Lloyd and J L S Coulter (Edinburgh, 1961), p. 213.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).