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]
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]
In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann (d.1964).
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]
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]
In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann (d.1964).