George Alexander Moorhead

[1] He qualified as a physician and surgeon at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, around 1853.

He received his doctorate (MD) in 1859 whilst already occupied as an army surgeon, serving with the Berkshire Regiment in India.

[5] He is the likely source of the poem "The Battle of Maiwand" by fellow Dundee resident William McGonagal written in 1899.

His very distinctive grave, in black polished basalt, bears a palm tree.

In November 1864, in the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Madras, he was married to Margaret Humphrys (1832-1902) from Portarlington, youngest daughter of Capt.

[9] She stayed with him in India and when the regiment returned to England in 1865 they settled in Maidstone in Kent and began a family.