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Sacred to the memory of PATRICK NIMMO merchant Dundee who died march 1817 HELEN MACLEAN his wife who died September 1856 and their daughter HELEN who died May 1846 Also PATRICK NIMMO. MD. who died 11th July 1855 Also their children HELEN, JAMES and WILLIAM Who died in infancy, ?? PATRICK NIMMO, M.D., who was a native of Dundee, laboured most successfully for upwards of fifty years in alleviating the sufferings of his fellow-creatures. After being some years in the East Lothian Cavalry Regiment, he established himself in Dundee, first in partnership with his apprentice master, Dr Robert Stewart, and then with Sir Alexander Douglass. He afterwards practised on his own account, and enjoyed an extensive and respectable practice in the town and neighbourhood, until within seven or eight years of his death, when age and increasing infirmities obliged him in a great measure to relinquish it. He was one of the first surgeons appointed to the Dundee Royal Infirmary, and for more than thirty years assisted much in raising and maintaining the professional Dundee 26 January 1857 permission granted to the family of the late Dr P Nimmo to remove old headstone to erect a new one in its place, see minute of the Hospital Committee of this date. Source:Register of Tombs and Monuments in Dundee Burial Ground, 1832.
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