Person physician writer foreign resident

William Gourlay

physician · writer · foreign resident

Main article Gourlay (Dr William) English physician resident in Madeira from 1792 for 18 years, author of a book on its natural history, climate and diseases (1811) whose weather data were questioned.

William Gourlay was an English physician resident in Madeira from 1792 for 18 years. In 1811 he published a book on the island's natural history, climate and diseases, whose weather data were questioned.

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1792
Dr William Gourlay arrived in Madeira.
1793
Dr William Gourlay made meteorological observations in Madeira.
1811
Dr William Gourlay published his Observations on Madeira in London, measuring Pico Ruivo at 2,515 m.

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