Colonial Surgeon

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. 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.

List of Colonial Surgeons

 * Peter Daniel Anthonisz (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
 * James Bowman (New South Wales)
 * Albert John Chalmers (Gold Coast)
 * Robert Michael Forde (Gambia)
 * Samuel Hamilton (British Honduras)
 * William Mayhew (Western Australia)
 * Daniel Robertson (Gambia)
 * Samuel Rowe (Gold Coast)
 * Isaac Scott Nind (New South Wales)
 * Robert Smith (Sierra Leone)
 * John Macaulay Wilson (Sierra Leone)