Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Harvey CIE

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(1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in

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Life

Harvey, the son of Robert Harvey, attended

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then studied medicine at the

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graduating MA in 1893 and MB in 1897. In 1905/6 he received a Diploma in Public Health. He was a Fellow of the

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and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. In 1907 he was posted to

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to work on a cure for

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. From 1908 he was stationed in

with the

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. As part of the Indian Medical Service he was based at

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. In the

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he was initially based in Bombay, on training duties, then served with the Sanitary Division of the ADMS in

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and was

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. He was the joint creator, with Robert J. Blackham, of the "Harvey-Blackham" pattern used on St John’s Ambulances in the Far East. Returning again to India he served as Director of the Central Research Institute of India. He was awarded the

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in 1921. He retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1925 and returned to Scotland to live in

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. In 1926 he was elected a

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. His proposers were Alexander Gray McKendrick,

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and David Waterston. He served as the Society’s Vice President from 1946 to 1948. In 1946 he was elected a member of the

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. He died in

on 11 September 1948.

Publications

See *''Principal Diseases affecting Troops and Animals in

'' (1908) *''Bombay Presidency Branch of the Imperial Indian Relief Fund. War 1914-1915'' (1915)

Family

He was married to Jean Sutherland in 1910.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey, William Frederick 1873 births 1948 deaths 20th-century Scottish medical doctors People educated at Dollar Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Indian Medical Service officers British people in colonial India