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

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. In 1938 he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh and from 1949-55 served as Honorary Secretary.[7]

He died in Edinburgh on 16 August 1969.[8]

Family

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

Publications

  • Public Health Laboratory Practice

References

  1. ↑ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615 to 1930
  2. ↑ Biographical Memoirs of the Indian National Science Academy vol 18
  3. ↑ "Dundee High School". Dundee Courier. 2 November 1900.
  4. 1 2 Indian Army List Jan 1919
  5. ↑ RSE Yearbook 1969
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Guthrie, Douglas. The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh.
  8. ↑ The Medical Register 1968 part 3


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