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Facts

Born 1716 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died July 13, 1794 (aged 78) • Gosport • England
Subjects Of Study United Kingdom • Citrus • diet • dietary supplement • preventive medicine • scurvy • navy

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James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
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Sir Gilbert Blane, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of Dundonald
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Joseph Hume, detail of a portrait by J.W. Walton, 1854; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Joseph Hume
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Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
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William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
former British prince
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John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
British admiral
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John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
British admiral
Andrew Browne Cunningham, first sea lord and chief of naval staff in the Royal Navy, 1943–46.
Andrew Browne Cunningham
British naval officer
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Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, in naval uniform and cap, wearing medals and standing outdoors among a group of people.
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten
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Beatty, Sir David
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
British admiral
Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
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Bertram Home Ramsay, naval commander in chief of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion.
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Fletcher Christian
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