Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Sir James John Louis Donnet was a British Royal Navy surgeon. His work on yellow fever was the foundation of modern medical practice in dealing with this disease.
Family life
In 1852, Donnet married Eliza Meyer. The 1881 census shows that they had one daughter, Adelaide Mary Donnet, born in Portugal in or about 1862. They also had a son, James John Connor Donnet, who served as a doctor in the RAMC, in India 1890–1914. ==References==