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	'''Charles Morehead''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] [[FRSE]] (8 February 1807 – 24 August 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish physician who came to eminence in the [[Indian Medical Service]] in relation to health education. He was the first principal of the Grant Medical College in Bombay upon its founding in 1845.		'''Charles Morehead''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] [[FRSE]] (8 February 1807 – 24 August 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish physician who came to eminence in the [[Indian Medical Service]] in relation to health education. He was the first principal of the Grant Medical College in Bombay upon its founding in 1845.

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'''Charles Morehead''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[FRSE]] (8 February 1807 – 24 August 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish physician who came to eminence in the [[Indian Medical Service]] in relation to health education. He was the first principal of the Grant Medical College in Bombay upon its founding in 1845.

==Life==
[[File:Grant medical college 1860.jpg|200px|thumb|Old Grant Medical College building, 1860|left]]
[[File:The grave of Charles Morehead, Dean Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The grave of Charles Morehead, Dean Cemetery]]
Morehead was born in [[Edinburgh]] to Margaret (daughter of Charles Wilson, Professor of Church History at the University of St. Andrews) and Rev. Dr [[Robert Morehead]] DD. He was younger brother to [[William Ambrose Morehead]]. The family lived at 1 Hill Street in [[New Town, Edinburgh|Edinburgh's New Town]].<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1882 |title=Dr Charles Morehead |journal=Edinburgh Medical Journal |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=379–382 |issn=0367-1038 |pmc=5303971}}</ref>

Educated at the [[Royal High School, Edinburgh|High School in Edinburgh]], he then studied medicine at the [[University of Edinburgh]] graduating with an [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] in 1828, and undertaking further studies in [[Paris]]. His teachers in Edinburgh included [[George Jardine]] and [[William Pulteney Alison]] and in Paris including [[Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis]] (1787-1872) and [[Rene Laennec]].<ref name=pmid24585609>{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/0967772013506821|pmid=24585609|title=Dr Charles Morehead MD (Edinburgh), FRCP (1807–1882): Pioneer in medical education|journal=Journal of Medical Biography|volume=23|issue=2|pages=73–83|year=2013|last1=Pandya|first1=Sunil K |s2cid=9404881}}</ref>

In 1829 he went to [[India]] to serve in the Bombay Medical Service linked to the [[East India Company]] working under [[Robert Grant (MP)|Sir Robert Grant]]. In 1835 they jointly founded the Grant Medical College, Morehead being its Principal from 1845. The first batch of students graduated in 1851 and included [[Atmaram Pandurang]], [[José Camillo Lisboa|J.C. Lisboa]], Sebastian de Carvalho, Anunta Chandroba, [[Bhau Daji]], Paul C. Gomes, Merwanji Sorabji, and Burjorji Dorabji.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Duggan |first1=J. N. |last2=Chitnis |first2=V. K. |date=1940 |title=The development of ophthalmology in Bombay |journal=The British Journal of Ophthalmology |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=213–229 |doi=10.1136/bjo.24.5.213 |issn=0007-1161 |pmc=1143185 |pmid=18169693}}</ref> In 1857 he was made honorary surgeon to the Queen. From 1859 to 1862 he was Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals for all India. He retired in 1862 due to ill-health and although offered a professorship at the Netley Hospital, he declined it and returned to his native city of [[Edinburgh]].<ref name=pmid24585609/>

In 1866 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] his proposer was [[John Hutton Balfour]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In later life he lived at 11 North Manor Place in Edinburgh's West End.<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1875</ref> In 1881, shortly before his death, [[Queen Victoria]] created him a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]].<ref>London Gazette 1881</ref>

He died at [[Wilton Castle (Redcar and Cleveland)|Wilton Castle]] on 24 August 1882.<ref>Edinburgh Medical Journal 1882: obituaries</ref> He was returned to Edinburgh for burial in [[Dean Cemetery]] where his<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=73666&scrwidth=2400|title=Charles Morehead grave monument details at Dean 2e Cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian,Scotland|website=www.gravestonephotos.com}}</ref> grave lies in the south-west spur.

==Publications==

*''Researches into the Diseases of India'' (1856)

==Family==

In 1844 he married Harriet Anne daughter of George Barnes, Archdeacon of Bombay. She died in 1846.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sanderson |first=James |date=1888 |title=Dr. Charles Morehead |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0370164600004508/type/journal_article |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |language=en |volume=14 |pages=41–43 |doi=10.1017/S0370164600004508 |issn=0370-1646}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/memorialoflifewo00hain Memorial of the life and work of Charles Morehead] (1884)
* [https://archive.org/details/clinicalresearch00moreuoft Clinical researches on disease in India] (1860)

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