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Letter, 27 July 1886
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Henry Nanton Murray Sedgwick was born on December 2, 1840, in St. Peters, Antigua, West Indies, son of Samuel Sedgwick (1798-1861), a physician in the West Indies.
He was a surgeon. He studied medicine in London, England, and in 1863, he enrolled in the Royal Navy. In the early 1870s, he served as a Fleet Surgeon on board the Royal Navy ship Salamis. In the 1890s, he served on the vessel Duke of Wellington. After he retired from the Royal Navy, he worked as a Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals in Portsmouth, England. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
In 1880, he married Mary Constance Aldous née Gray (1843–). He died on December 23, 1926, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
Letter from H.N.M. Sedgwick to John William Dawson, written from Portsmouth.