George Harris (physician)

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Companion of the Order of the Star of India

Punjab, United Provinces and Bengal.[1][2] He served as Professor and Physician at the Calcutta Medical School and in 1914 was made Honorary Surgeon to King George V and the Viceroy of India.[1][3]

Early life

Harris was born on 29 February 1856.

St George’s Hospital qualifying as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.[1][4] In 1902 he passed the M.D. degree at the University of Durham.[1]

Career

Harris entered the Indian Medical Service in 1878 and in 1880 served in the latter stage of the Second Afghan War.[1][2]

In 1885, Harris became Civil Surgeon of

United Provinces, taking up the same role in Bengal between 1910 and 1915.[1]

Harris wrote frequently in the Indian Medical Gazette and the

British Medical Journal.[1] He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1903 and Companion Order of the Star of India in 1911.[1] The same year he was elected President of The Asiatic Society for 1911–12. In 1914 he was made Honorary Surgeon to King George V and to the Viceroy of India.[1]

Family life

In 1883, Harris married Alice, daughter of General Archibald Edwards Campbell, formerly of the Bengal Staff Corps.[2] Harris died in London on 16 April 1931 and was survived by two sons and four daughters.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Obituary, Major-General Harris, The Times, 18 April 1931, p.12
  2. ^ a b c d "Munks Roll Details for George Francis Angelo Harris". rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1
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  4. ^ Bedford Modern School of the Black And Red, Andrew Underwood 1981
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