A Colonial Surgeon was a medical official in the
British Empire
The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...
. Colonial Surgeons were sometimes part of the government of British colonies, for instance in
British Honduras
British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, where the Colonial Surgeon was a member of the Executive Council. Daniel Robertson was Colonial Secretary and Acting Governor of the Gambia in the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Rowe was twice governor of Sierra Leone and held several other senior positions.
List of Colonial Surgeons
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Peter Daniel Anthonisz (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
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James Bowman (New South Wales)
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Albert John Chalmers
Albert John Chalmers (28 March 1870 - 5 April 1920) was a British colonial physician who was a research pioneer in tropical medicine.
Biography
Albert John Chalmers was born in Manchester on 28 March 1870. He received his qualifications in 189 ...
(Gold Coast)
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Robert Michael Forde (Gambia)
[Hughes, Arnold & David Perfect. (2008) ''Historical Dictionary of the Gambia''. 4th edition. Historical Dictionaries of Africa No. 109. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 65. ]
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Samuel Hamilton (British Honduras)
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William Mayhew (Western Australia)
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Daniel Robertson (Gambia)
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Samuel Rowe (Gold Coast)
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Isaac Scott Nind (New South Wales)
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Robert Smith (Sierra Leone)
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John Macaulay Wilson
John Macaulay Wilson was an African people, African King, and one of the first Africans to receive a European medical training. He was sent from Sierra Leone to Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain for medical training in either 1794 or 1796. He retur ...
(Sierra Leone)
See also
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Colonial Surgeon (South Australia)
The Office of Colonial Surgeon was, during the days when South Australia was a British colony, a salaried Government position, whose duties and responsibilities were defined by the Parliament of the day. From 1870 it was ''de facto'' attached to t ...
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List of Indian Medical Service officers
This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence.
A to B
C
D to G
H to L
M to S
T to W
References
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References
British Empire-related lists
Lists of physicians
Medicine in the British Empire
Colonial Surgeons
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