Professor of medical protozoology London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1968-79 (b Forfar, Angus, Scotland, 1914; q Glasgow 1938; DTM&H), d 13 May 2002.
He studied zoology before training to be a doctor, which propelled him into his career in tropical medicine. Enlisting in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he was entomologist, malariologist, and subsequently commanding officer of Malaria Field Units, and served in Palestine, Transjordan, north Africa, Italy, India, and Sicily—where he was blown up in a truck by a landmine. In 1947 he became entomologist in the Yellow Fever Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, and in 1958 director of the East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization. He spent a few years at the Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine before being appointed to his chair at the London School.
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