Colonial Surgeon

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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.[1] 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

See also

References

  1. ^ Wall, Edgar G. (1903) The British Empire Yearbook 1903, Volume 1, Part 2. London: E. Stanford. p. 1243.
  2. ^ 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