Prof David Waters Sutherland CIE FRSE (18 December 1872–19 April 1939) was an Australian physician who ran the

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and married Princess Bamba Singh.

Biography

He was born in

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on 18 December 1872, the son of Wilhelmina Waters and her husband, John Sutherland of

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. He was educated at Creswick Grammar School, then

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. He studied medicine at the

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, Scotland, graduating with an

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in 1893, then took the exams for the

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. He subsequently qualified for the post-graduate Doctor of Medicine (MD). He was also a member of the (English) Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). Originally attached to the

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as part of the

he went to Bengal as a Surgeon Lieutenant in 1894. He served in the Chitral Campaign of 1895. He later served in engagements at both Malakand and

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. He was promoted to Major in 1905 and in 1919 was Consulting Physician to the

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Field Force. He reached the rank of Lt Colonel. Concurrently, in 1897 he became Professor of Materia Medica and

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at the

. In 1909 he became Principal and Director of the college, also continuing as Professor of Medicine. In 1902 he had received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, and been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh the following year. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Alexander Bruce and

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. In 1917 he was created a Commander of the

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(CIE) by King

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. Sutherland retired in 1926 and returned to

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soon after. It is unclear if his wife, Princess Bamba, went with him. He died at "Braeside" at Belhaven on the outskirts of

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in Scotland on 19 April 1939.

Family

In 1915 he married Princess Bamba Singh daughter of Prince Duleep Singh, last of the family dynasty which had controlled the entire

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. They had no children.

Publications

*''Differential Diagnosis of Fevers'' (1909)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, David Waters 1872 births 1939 deaths Australian pathologists People from Buninyong Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh