A Colonial Surgeon was a medical official in the British Empire. Colonial Surgeons were sometimes part of the government of British colonies, for instance in British Honduras 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
- Peter Daniel Anthonisz (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
- James Bowman (New South Wales)
- Albert John Chalmers (Gold Coast)
- Robert Michael Forde (Gambia)
- Samuel Hamilton (British Honduras)
- William Mayhew (Western Australia)
- Daniel Robertson (Gambia)
- Samuel Rowe (Gold Coast)
- Isaac Scott Nind (New South Wales)
- Robert Smith (Sierra Leone)
- John Macaulay Wilson (Sierra Leone)
See also
References
- Wall, Edgar G. (1903) The British Empire Yearbook 1903, Volume 1, Part 2. London: E. Stanford. p. 1243.
- Hughes, Arnold & David Perfect. (2008) Historical Dictionary of the Gambia. 4th edition. Historical Dictionaries of Africa No. 109. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780810862609
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