| 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]
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]
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]
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]