Alexander Dron Stewart
Lt Col Alexander Dron Stewart IMS CIE FRSE FRCPE FRCSE MID LLD (1883–1969) was a 20th-century Scottish physician and public health expert associated with India.[1]
He was joint founder of the Indian National Science Academy in 1935.[2]
Life[edit]
He was born in Blairgowrie in Perthshire on 22 June 1883, the son of William Stewart. He was educated at the High School of Dundee[3] and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1906. He was commissioned into the Indian Army on 1 September 1906.[4]
In the First World War he served as a surgeon in Gallipoli, Salonika and Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in dispatches and promoted to Major in March 1918. After the war he did further training in public health in Edinburgh.[4]
He left India permanently in 1935 and settled in Edinburgh.[5]
From 1935 to 1948 he was Superintendent of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Anderson Gray McKendrick, William Glen Liston, Sir David Wilkie, and William Frederick Harvey.[6] In 1937 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[7][8] In 1938 he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh and from 1949-55 served as Honorary Secretary.[9]
He died in Edinburgh on 16 August 1969.[10]
Family[edit]
In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann (d.1964).
Publications[edit]
- Public Health Laboratory Practice
References[edit]
- ^ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615 to 1930
- ^ Biographical Memoirs of the Indian National Science Academy vol 18
- ^ "Dundee High School". Dundee Courier. 2 November 1900.
- ^ a b Indian Army List Jan 1919
- ^ RSE Yearbook 1969
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Guthrie, Douglas. The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh.
- ^ The Medical Register 1968 part 3
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