George Harris (physician) explained

George Harris
Honorific Suffix:CSI FRCP
Rank:Major General
Awards:Companion of the Order of the Star of India
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Birth Date:29 February 1856
Death Date:16 April 1931
Death Place:London, England

Major-General George Francis Angelo Harris (29 February 1856 – 16 April 1931) was Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in the 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.[1] He was the son of Major-General Charles Shooter Harris of the Bengal Staff Corps.[1] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and 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 Simla and in 1890 was made Civil Surgeon of Nagpur, a position he held until 1898.[1] In 1900 he was selected for the Chair of Materia Medica at the Medical College, Calcutta and Physician of the College Hospital.[1] In 1908 he was appointed Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in the Punjab and 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]

Notes and References

  1. Obituary, Major-General Harris, The Times, 18 April 1931, p.12
  2. Web site: Munks Roll Details for George Francis Angelo Harris. rcplondon.ac.uk. 30 June 2015. 23 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141223073151/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2048. dead.
  3. Web site: subscription. Harris, Maj.-Gen. George Francis Angelo, (29 Feb. 1856–16 April 1931). WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U210840. 978-0-19-954089-1.
  4. Bedford Modern School of the Black And Red, Andrew Underwood 1981