Colonial Surgeon

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A Colonial Surgeon was a medical official in the British Empire. Colonial Surgeons were sometimes part of the government of British colonies, for instance in British Honduras where the Colonial Surgeon was a member of the Executive Council.Wall, Edgar G. (1903) The British Empire Yearbook 1903, Volume 1, Part 2. London: E. Stanford. p. 1243. Daniel Robertson was Colonial Secretary and Acting Governor of the Gambia in the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Rowe was twice governor of Sierra Leone and held several other senior positions.