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

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


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