Alexander Dron Stewart
{{Short description|Scottish physician and public health expert}}
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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.Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615 to 1930
He was joint founder of the Indian National Science Academy in 1935.Biographical Memoirs of the Indian National Science Academy vol 18
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{{cite news |title= Dundee High School |work=Dundee Courier |date= 2 November 1900}} 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.Indian Army List Jan 1919
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.
He left India permanently in 1935 and settled in Edinburgh.RSE Yearbook 1969
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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=1 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} In 1937 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Harveian Society|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fHAR%2f1%2f1%2f1&pos=17|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}} In 1938 he was elected to the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh and from 1949-55 served as honorary secretary.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFqotwAACAAJ|title=The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh|last=Guthrie|first=Douglas|publisher=University of Edinburgh|language=en}}
He died in Edinburgh on 16 August 1969.The Medical Register 1968 part 3
Family
In 1916 he married Isobel Marguerite Mann (d.1964).
Publications
- Public Health Laboratory Practice
References
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Category:People from Blairgowrie and Rattray
Category:People educated at the High School of Dundee
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:20th-century Scottish surgeons
Category:Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh
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