Lt Col Alexander Dron Stewart
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CIE FRSE
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FRCPE FRCSE MID LLD (1883–1969) was a 20th-century Scottish physician and public health expert associated with
India.
He was joint founder of the
Indian National Science Academy in 1935.
Life
He was born in
Blairgowrie in
Perthshire
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on 22 June 1883, the son of William Stewart. He was educated at the
High School of Dundee and studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh graduating with an
MB ChB in 1906. He was commissioned into the Indian Army on 1 September 1906.
[Indian Army List Jan 1919]
In the
First World War he served as a surgeon in
Gallipoli
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,
Salonika and
Mesopotamia. He was
mentioned in dispatches
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and promoted to Major in March 1918. After the war he did further training in public health in Edinburgh.
He left India permanently in 1935 and settled in Edinburgh.
From 1935 to 1948 he was Superintendent of the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
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on Lauriston Place. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Anderson Gray McKendrick,
William Glen Liston
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,
Sir David Wilkie, and
William Frederick Harvey. In 1938 he was elected to the
Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh and from 1949-55 served as Honorary Secretary.
He died in
Edinburgh on 16 August 1969.
[The Medical Register 1968 part 3]
Family
In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann (d.1964).
Publications
*''Public Health Laboratory Practice''
References
1883 births
1969 deaths
People from Blairgowrie and Rattray
People educated at the High School of Dundee
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish surgeons
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
20th-century surgeons
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