Samuel Ludlow (surgeon)

Samuel Ludlow (died 1853) was a British surgeon in the East India Company medical establishment, serving in the Bengal Presidency in British India during the first half of the nineteenth century. He joined the Bengal medical department in 1804, became Assistant Surgeon in 1805 and Assistant Surgeon to the civil station of Benaras in 1806. From 1813 he served at the Delhi Residency, was promoted to Surgeon in 1817, and later held posts as Superintending Surgeon for the Agra Circle and the Sirhind Division. He sat on the Bengal Medical Board, retired to Exeter and was elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1844, one of the original 300. He is best known today for building a house in the Civil Lines outside the walls of Old Delhi, called Ludlow Castle, which later became the Residency at Delhi and, in September 1857, the site of a British battery during the Siege of Delhi. He died in Bath in 1853.