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'''John Shoolbred''' [[FRSE]] (13 March 1766 – 12 October 1831) was a Scottish [[naval surgeon]]. He is associated with the early widespread use of [[smallpox vaccine]] in [[India]] in the early 19th century.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born in [[Auchtermuchty]] in [[Fife]] on 13 March 1766, the eldest son of Helen Stark (born 1743) and her husband, James Shoolbred (1737–1818) of the [[East India Company]].<ref name="kittybrewster">{{cite web |url= http://kittybrewster.com/ancestry/shoolbred.htm |author=Charles Hillman |website=kittybrewster.com |title=Shoolbred Genealogy |accessdate=2018-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823023546/http://kittybrewster.com/ancestry/shoolbred.htm |archive-date=23 August 2021 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> His uncle, also [[John Shoolbred (slave trader, born 1740)|John Shoolbred]] (1740-1802) served as Secretary to the [[African Company of Merchants]].<ref name="Der">{{cite journal |last1=Der |first1=Benedict |title=Edmund Burke and Africa, 1772-1792 |journal=Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |date=1970 |volume=11 |pages=9–26 |jstor=41406356 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41406356 |issn=0855-3246}}</ref><br />
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He studied medicine at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. In 1789 he joined the [[East India Company]] as a surgeon. His position from 1790 to 1794 is unclear but in 1794 he became Assistant Surgeon in the Presidency National Hospital in [[Bengal]]. From 1802 he became involved in the campaign for widespread use of the newly created smallpox vaccination. Due to this involvement, in 1807 the President made him Superintendent General of Vaccine Inoculation in India, a highly responsible role. He was also placed as Superintendent of the [[Calcutta]] Native Hospital.<ref name="The Royal Society of Edinburgh">{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}}</ref><br />
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In 1819 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[Thomas Allan (mineralogist)|Thomas Allan]], [[Thomas Charles Hope]], and [[Henry Dewar (physician)|Henry Dewar]].<ref name="The Royal Society of Edinburgh"/><br />
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He retired from the East India Company in 1821 and died in [[Cheltenham]] on 12 October 1831.<ref name="thepeerage">{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p52613.htm|website=thepeerage.com|title=Person Page|accessdate=2018-06-22}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
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In 1801 he married Lucy Rand in [[Calcutta]]. Their daughter, Helen Mary Shoolbred, married Admiral [[Norwich Duff]].<ref name="kittybrewster"/><br />
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==Publications==<br />
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*''Report on the Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal''<br />
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