A Colonial Surgeon was a medical official in the
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, colonies, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, mandates, and other Dependent territory, territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It bega ...
. Colonial Surgeons were sometimes part of the government of British colonies, for instance in
British Honduras
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America — specifically located on the southern edge of the Yucatan Peninsula from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony — renamed Belize from 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 (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 (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 ...
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List of Indian Medical Service officers
References
British Empire-related lists
Lists of physicians
Medicine in the British Empire
Colonial Surgeons
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