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[[File:Dr Millingen (BM 1859,0709.1218).jpg|thumb|John Gideon Millingen]]<br />
'''John Gideon Millingen''' (1782–1862) was a British army [[surgeon]] and author. He was the brother of [[James Millingen]] and an uncle of [[Julius Michael Millingen]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in [[Westminster]] to parents of [[Dutch people|Dutch]] descent, Millingen was educated in [[Paris]] where he achieved his medical degree. He became an assistant surgeon in the British Army in 1802, serving in the [[Peninsular War]] and won a medal at [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]] and the surrender of Paris. He retired in 1823 and was appointed as a physician to the military asylum at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]] and [[Hanwell]]. By 1836. he was living in [[Covent Garden]], London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bedford Street and Chandos Place Area: Bedford Street Pages 253-263 Survey of London: Volume 36, Covent Garden. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp253-263 |website=British History Online |publisher=LCC 1970 |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''The Bee-hive'' (1818), a musical farce<br />
* ''Ladies at Home, or Gentlemen, We Can Do Without You'' (1819)<br />
* ''Sketches of Ancient and Modern Boulogne'' (1826) (Prose)<br />
* ''Adventures of an Irish Gentleman'', 3 vol. (1830)<br />
* ''The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried'' (1827)<br />
* ''Who'll Lend Me a Wife?'' (1834)<br />
* ''The Miser's Daughter'' (1835)<br />
* ''Borrowed Feathers'' (1836)<br />
* ''Curiosities of Medical Experience'' (1837)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39074 |title=Curiosities of Medical Experience |publisher=Richard Bentley |edition=2nd |date=1839 |location=London |first=John Gideon |last=Millingen |accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref><br />
* ''Stories of [[Torres Vedras]]'', 3 vol. (1839)<ref>{{cite book<br />
|last=Millingen<br />
|first=John Gideon<br />
|title=Stories of Torres Vedras<br />
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hn8EAAAAQAAJ<br />
|year=1839<br />
|publisher=John Bentley<br />
|location=London<br />
}}</ref> <br />
* ''The History of Duelling'' (1841)<br />
* ''Recollections of Republican France from 1790 to 1801'' (1848)<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia | first= T. B. |last=Saunders| title=Millingen, John Gideon (1782–1849)| author2= rev. James Falkner| encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2004 | format=online ed available to subscribers | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18759}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Gutenberg author | id=39823| name=John Gideon Millingen}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Gideon Millingen}}<br />
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