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 post ...

. 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

Peter Daniel Anthonisz Peter Daniel Anthonisz (25 June 1822 – 12 June 1903) was a well-known burgher doctor who was the first Ceylonese to obtain an M.R.C.P. and F.R.C.S. He was also the inaugural president of the Ceylon Branch of the British Medical As ...

(Southern Province, Sri Lanka) * James Bowman (New South Wales) *

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) * 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. * Samuel Hamilton (British Honduras) * William Mayhew (Western Australia) * Daniel Robertson (Gambia) * Samuel Rowe (Gold Coast) *

Isaac Scott Nind Isaac Scott Nind (1797–1868) was an early colonial doctor, artist and pharmacist. He qualified LAC (Licentiate of the Apothecaries Company) in London on 13 July 1820. He arrived in New South Wales in 1826. Within three weeks of his arrival he was ...

(New South Wales) *

Robert Smith Robert Smith or Bob Smith, or similar, may refer to: Business * Robert MacKay Smith (1802–1888), Scottish businessman, meteorologist and philanthropist who founded Glasgow University's Mackay Smith Prizes * Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915), ...

(Sierra Leone) *

John Macaulay Wilson John Macaulay Wilson was an 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 returned to fill a n ...

(Sierra Leone)

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List of Colonial Surgeons

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