Ruxton was Surgeon-General to the Army in Ireland. He later petitioned that the Dublin Society of Surgeons be formed into the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (1784). See L. Conlon, "Ardee corporation 1641-1841", Ardee Monastery National School Jubilee Publication 1988-1989 (Ardee, 1989), p. 52; see also H. O’Sullivan, "The plantation of the Cromwellian soldiers in the barony of Ardee, 1652-1656’, Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, XXI, 4(1988), pp. 449-450.
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