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Imperial Bacteriologist
Imperial Bacteriologist and Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist were designations in the British Indian government. The positions involved work related to aspects of applied bacteriology. The position in agriculture, first occupied by C.J. Bergtheil, involved problems relating to fermentation and chemistry in the production of indigo. On the veterinary side, Imperial bacteriologists worked on veterinary health with the stated terms of reference being ''to investigate disease of domesticated animals in all provinces in India and to ascertain, as far as possible, by biological research both in the laboratory and, when necessary, at the place of outbreak, the means for preventing and curing such disease''. The position was held by: ;Veterinary * 1890-1907 - Alfred Lingard (1849-1938), worked on vaccines, particularly rinderpest, initially at Pune and then at the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory in Mukteswar * 1907-1915 - Lt. Col. J.D.E. Holmes (1867-1915) * 1916-1920 - Alfred L ...
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Alfred Lingard
Alfred Lingard (1849 – 18 February 1938) was a British medical pathologist who worked on veterinary diseases in India, serving as an Imperial Bacteriologist from 1890 to 1907. He was the founding director of the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory in Mukteswar (which later became part of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute) to produce anthrax and rinderpest vaccines. Life and work Lingard received a medical degree in 1873, an LSA in 1874. He worked in the Royal Army Medical Corps and as a house physician at St. Thomas' Hospital before traveling across Europe. Lingard studied bacteriology in Germany and had worked as a lecturer at the Birkbeck Institution. He was appointed as Imperial Bacteriologist from 1890 to 1907. The post was created following several earlier studies. A report commissioned by Lord Mayo in 1871 had identified that "''Rinderpest is the murrain to which a far greater share of mortality among cattle is due than all other causes put together and this ...
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John Dalrymple Edgar Holmes
Lt. Col. John Dalrymple Edgar Holmes (1867 - 2 March 1915) was a British veterinary scientist and bacteriologist who worked in India as Imperial Bacteriologist. He worked on the production of veterinary vaccines especially for rinderpest. Holmes was born in 1867 to Reverend John Holmes at Tipperary, where he went to the local grammar school before going to Trinity College, Dublin. Graduating with a BA in 1890 he joined the Royal Veterinary College and qualified MRCVS in 1895 and joined the Army Veterinary Department. He was deputed to the Indian Civil Veterinary Department in 1900 and worked as an Assistant Bacteriologist at the Muktesar Laboratory. He went to Cambridge for studies and received a DSc in 1905 followed by work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He returned to India and served as a Professor of Sanitary Science at the Punjab Veterinary College in Lahore. He was appointed Imperial Bacteriologist in 1907 to succeed Alfred Lingard. In 1912 he was awarded the Steele Mem ...
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Alfred Leslie Sheather
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Cyril J
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Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson
Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson CIE (29 April 1869 - 2 August 1941) was an English bacteriologist who worked in India as Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist. Hutchinson studied at Trinity College, Glenalmond before going to St. John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511. The ... graduating in 1891. He taught chemistry at the Colonial College, Hollesley and in 1904 he joined the Indian Tea Association in Assam. He succeeded Harold Hart Mann in 1907 as scientific officer. In 1909 he became Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist at Pusa and retired in 1926 and joined the Imperial Chemical Industries in 1931. His work in India was principally on soil nutrients and fertility. He worked on bacterial nitrogen fixation, green manures and humus. His work on green manure ...
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