Colonial Surgeon

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

• Peter Daniel Anthonisz (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
• James Bowman (New South Wales)
• Albert John Chalmers (Gold Coast)
• Robert Michael Forde (Gambia)^[2]
• 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

• Colonial Surgeon (South Australia)
• List of Indian Medical Service officers