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1838; fifth son of Christopher of '• Belleville," and grandson of William Cleburne of " Springniount " and " Derinsalla,"' reisresentative of the West- moreland family of that name from which sprung William Clavborne of Romancoke, first royal (1625) ; lieutenant- governor of Virginia under Bennett, and again secretary of state under his kins- man and former polit- ical opponent, Gov. Sir William Berkeley. He was educated at classical schools in Bristol, began the ^^tudy of physic at Edinburgh in 1856, under Dr. Alexander Scott Hunter, remov- ing in 1857 to Phila- delphia, and was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1860. After a short term of service at the Pennsylvania hospital, he entered the United States navy as an assistant surgeon. May 9, 1861, serving throughout the civil war, 1861-65, and the war with Spain, 1898. His first duty was on the sloop of- war Jamestoicn off Fernandina, Fla., where he aided in the capture and destruction of the blockade-runner Alvarado, Aug. 5, 1861. He was on temporary dutj- with the 45th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers at Otter Island, S.C., in 1862; was promoted passed assistant surgeon on Oct. 26, 1863, and surgeon on Nov. 24, 1863; participated in most of the operations and engagements of the North Atlantic and West Gulf blockading squad- rons, ending in the bombardment and capture of Fort Fisher, N.C., Jan. 15, 1865; was made judge advocate of the naval retiring board in 1867; recorder and member of several courts-martial and medical examining boards, and was appointed fleet surgeon of the North Atlantic fleet in 1870. In 1876 he was appointed a delegate to the American medical association ; was selected (though unable to serve) as one of the vice-presi- dents of the naval section of the International medical congress of 1886; was chosen chairman of the medical committee of the Constitutional centennial in 1887, and charged with the execu- tive work of organizing its volunteer ambulance and medical staff. In the same year he founded the first medical emergency corps of Philadelphia, and was made jiresident of its volunteer medical association. He was interested in natural sci- ences, especially in conchology ; was elected a member of the Philadelphia academy of natural
 * ' Secretary of state for the Collony of Virginia "

sciences in 1860, and assisted Timothy Conrad and Isaac Lea in arranging part of the Wilkes expedition shells. He was elected a member of the Historical society of Pennsylvania in 1872 ; a member of the American medical association in 1876 ; and a member of the Historical society of Virginia in 1883. He introduced, in 1864, the topical use of pure carbolic acid in the treatment of carbuncle abscesses and other purulent collec- tions, and contributed a number of minor papers to medical and surgical science. In 1879 he in- vented a fluke-buoy life-saA'ing apparatus and mattress for ships of war ; and at various times devised instruments and surgical appliances which were used in hospitals and in the field during the war with Spain in 1898. He was pro- moted medical inspector, Jan. 7, 1878, and on Sept. 18, 1887, he was commissioned medical director with the rank of captain. On Aug. 20, 1894, he was placed in charge of the naval hospi- tal, Norfolk, Va., the senior officer in the medical corps, and had charge of the wounded Spanish prisoners from Cervera's fleet in 1898.

CLEBURNE, Patrick Ronayne, soldier and lawyer, was born at his father's residence, " The Grange," county Cork, Ireland, March 17, 1828; second son of Dr. Joseph and Mary Anne (Ro- nayne) Cleburne; and grandson of " William of Rock Cottage,"' who was fourth in descent from William Cleburne of St. John's Manor, county Wexford. His father was in moderate circum- stances, and though a popular physician in his own county, held but a small government ap- pointment in medical charge of the military barracks at Ballincolig. Being intended for his father's profession, Patrick was educated at home by private tutors with that object, till be entered the office of Dr. T. H. Justice of Mallow. About this time his father died and he was left dependent upon his mother, a daughter of Patrick Ronayne of "Anne, brook, ' ' descended from (/f/^, O^^^^u^l-ft^, . that " Maurice Ro- nayne d'Longhtand,"' who obtained from Henry IV, " A Charter of the Rights of Enghsh- men." As the study of medicine was evidently distasteful to him, he neglected his studies, and chagrined at his failure in the examina- tions of Trinity college, he ran away and joined the 41st British infantry, then under orders for India. He was discovered by accident