Francis Nesbit Dill

Francis Nesbit Dill (1847-1901) was the fourth child of Robert Foster Dill and Catherine Haughton Rentoul, and a great-grandchild of Susanna West, who was still living on the Hill in Downpatrick at the time of his birth. There is a record for Francis an engineer in the Admiralty Records for 1878.

Francis was clearly named after his Uncle, Francis Nesbit Dill who had died in 1846 aged just thirty in Victoria, Hong Kong. This Francis was another doctor, and the founder of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society:

The excerpt below is from their Transactions for the years 1845-1846:

The younger Francis died in 1901, unmarried.