Sir Charles Pardey Lukis (1857 – 22 October 1917) was the inaugural

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'' and served as the

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of the Indian Medical Service (1910–1917). Pardey was also a strong supporter of the establishment of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, though he did not live to see it open in 1921. He received his medical training at

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, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1890. The same year, he entered the

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and served and worked in India for the remainder of his career, though he was awarded his MD from the

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in 1904. He was appointed as a

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of medicine in

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in 1905 and became

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to the

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the same year. He was made a Commander of the

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in 1910, was knighted in 1911, and became honorary surgeon to the king in 1913. His appointment as director-general of the Indian Medical Service was at the rank of surgeon-general, and he was promoted to

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in 1916. Theodore Lukis, his son, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and qualified as a medical doctor but was killed during the

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. Lukis was extremely bitter about his loss, writing that "his has been a wasted life and I can find no justification, for a medical man, who gives up his profession of healing, in order to endeavour to kill his fellow creatures, even though they be enemies". A book co-written by Lukis, ''Tropical Hygiene for Residents in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Climates,'' was re-issued in 2010. Lukis also wrote a handbook on midwifery.

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