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Physician & Surgeon. Scholar. Author. Lecturer & Linguist. Intrepid traveller.

Advocate of free medical treatment for the poor and disadvantaged peoples of the Caribbean Islands.

1848. Born Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. 1859. Queen’s Royal College (aka Queen’s Collegiate School) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_College

1867. Awarded Warneford Scholarship to study medicine at Kings College, London.

1873. Becomes Member of Royal College of Surgeons MRCS. 1874. Ship’s Surgeon and Superintendent Migrant ship ADAMANT Sailed from London to Nelson New Zealand.

1889. Medical Officer Dominica Roseau District - Including Carib Reservation.

1892. Appointed District Medical officer of St Kitts & Nevis.

1896. Chairman of the town improvement commissioners St Kitts.

1897. Member of the Poor Law Board St Kitts.

1897 to 1904. Magistrate and Medical Officer Anguilla.

Chronicler of the Kalinago’s linguistic heritage: 1898. Published ‘The Carib Language as Now Spoken’. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842969?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

1899. Deputy Judge, Court of summary jurisdiction Leeward Islands.

1899. Authored an official report on the severe damage and humanitarian crisis caused by the ‘San Ciriaco’ hurricane. (This was the longest lasting Hurricane in Caribbean History, lasting 23 days and resulting in at least 3,656 deaths). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_San_Ciriaco_hurricane#/media/File:1899_San_Ciriaco_hurricane_track.png

1903. Published article in manual of pathology Framboesia ( yaws )

1911. Married Mary Edith Evelyn of Hamilton House, Nevis.

Died in 1915, survived by Mary and four children - two from a previous marriage.