| Birth | 6 October 1773 26 |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | John McCulloch 17 August 1784 (Age 10 years) |
| Education | Studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated as a Medical Doctor with a thesis on Electricity. 12 September 1793 (Age 19 years) |
| Occupation | John obtained the position of assistant surgeon to the royal regiment of artillery but his scientific acquirements became known and in 1803 he was appointed chemist to the board of ordnance. 1803 (Age 29 years) |
| Occupation | He was the first geologist to be employed by the government in Britain and is best known for his pioneering texts on geology and for producing the first geological maps of Scotland. 1811 (Age 37 years) |
| Death of a father | James McCulloch 1827 (Age 53 years) |
| Marriage | Louisa Margaretta White — View this family 6 July 1835 (Age 61 years) |
| Death | While travelling with her in Cornwall, he was through from his carriage and sustained a compound fracture of the leg. It was amputated and he sank after the operation, dying on 20 Aug at the house of a friend, Captain Giddy, R.N. of Poltair, near Penzance. 20 August 1835 (Age 61 years) |
| Burial | Surgeon and geologist. He was the third of eight children born to James McCulloch (1746-1832), wine merchant of Roscoff, and his wife, Elizabeth de Lisle, daughter of Thomas de Lisle, a Guernsey jurat. 1835 (Age 61 years) |
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Marriage: 11 September 1767 — Gretna Green, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |
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James McCulloch Birth: about 1769 22 — Guernsey, Channel Islands |
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John McCulloch Birth: 6 October 1773 26 — Guernsey, Channel Islands Death: While travelling with her in Cornwall, he was through from his carriage and sustained a compound fracture of the leg. It was amputated and he sank after the operation, dying on 20 Aug at the house of a friend, Captain Giddy, R.N. of Poltair, near Penzance. — 20 August 1835 — Poltair, Penzance, Cornwall, England |
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John McCulloch Birth: 6 October 1773 26 — Guernsey, Channel Islands Death: While travelling with her in Cornwall, he was through from his carriage and sustained a compound fracture of the leg. It was amputated and he sank after the operation, dying on 20 Aug at the house of a friend, Captain Giddy, R.N. of Poltair, near Penzance. — 20 August 1835 — Poltair, Penzance, Cornwall, England |
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Louisa Margaretta White Birth: 1811 Death: 22 August 1858 — Addington, Surrey, England |
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Marriage: 6 July 1835 — St. Martin-In-The-Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England |
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