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	Challenging Hindu prejudices against touching dead bodies had been instigated in the previous decade when CMC’s first anatomy professor, [[Henry Goodeve]] demonstrated anatomy to his first cohort of Hindu students in the 1830s.<ref name="BMJ1907">{{Cite journal\|date=25 May 1907\|title=British Medicine in India\|journal=British Medical Journal\|volume=1\|issue=2421\|pages=1245–1253\|issn=0007-1447\|pmc=2357439\|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2421.1245}}</ref> It was most likely as a result of his influence that Chuckerbuttty himself added "Goodeve" to his own name, inserting it before his surname,<ref name="Cunningham1997"/> and his [Henry Goodeve's] recommendation that he gained entry into the then new Medical College of Bengal (CMC), at his second attempt in 1844. The College had been established in 1835 by [[M. J. Bramley]], who was an advocate of travelling fellowships for bright students,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> and at the request of Goodeve, who had been proposing the extension of medical training to certain Hindus<ref name="RCSGoodeve"/> and who had offered to bear costs for one student, plans materialised for one such trip.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>		Challenging Hindu prejudices against touching dead bodies had been instigated in the previous decade when CMC’s first anatomy professor, [[Henry Goodeve]] demonstrated anatomy to his first cohort of Hindu students in the 1830s.<ref name="BMJ1907">{{Cite journal\|date=25 May 1907\|title=British Medicine in India\|journal=British Medical Journal\|volume=1\|issue=2421\|pages=1245–1253\|issn=0007-1447\|pmc=2357439\|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2421.1245}}</ref> It was most likely as a result of his influence that Chuckerbuttty himself added "Goodeve" to his own name, inserting it before his surname,<ref name="Cunningham1997"/> and his [Henry Goodeve's] recommendation that he gained entry into the then new Medical College of Bengal (CMC), at his second attempt in 1844. The College had been established in 1835 by [[M. J. Bramley]], who was an advocate of travelling fellowships for bright students,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> and at the request of Goodeve, who had been proposing the extension of medical training to certain Hindus<ref name="RCSGoodeve"/> and who had offered to bear costs for one student, plans materialised for one such trip.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

	In 1845,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> the [[Company rule in India\|government]] sponsored Chuckerbutty's travel to England for further medical education.<ref name="Lahiri2000">{{cite book\|last=Lahiri\|first=Shompa\|title=Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfGOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3\|year=2000\|publisher=Routledge\|location=Abingdon\|isbn=978-0-714-68049-1\|page=3}}</ref><ref name="Fisher2004">{{cite book\|last=Fisher\|first=Michael H.\|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA370\|year=2004\|publisher=Permanent Black\|location=Delhi\|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8\|page=370}}</ref> Together with Bholanath Bose from [[Barrackpore]] and Gopal Chunder Seal, who were sponsored by a regional entrepreneur, [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]<ref name="memoirK.M">{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182\|title=Memoir Of Dwarkanath Tagore\|last=Mittra\|first=Kissory Chand\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182/page/n173 107]}}</ref> and another student, Dwarka Nath Basu, the four travelled by ship with Goodeve.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/><ref name="RCSGoodeve">{{Cite web\|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002016b.htm\|title=Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online\|last=England\|first=Royal College of Surgeons of\|website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk\|language=en-gb\|access-date=22 August ~~2022~~}}</ref> Chuckerbutty was the youngest of them.<ref name="UCLNews">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/0416/28042016-ucllibraryservicesresearchesuclshistoricalroleinopeningupeducation\|title=UCL Library Services researches UCL's historical role in opening up education\|date=2016-04-28\|website=www.ucl.ac.uk\|language=en\|access-date=21 August ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref name="GoldMedal">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hVQAAAAYAAJ&q=Soorjo+Coomar+Chuckerbutty&pg=PA212\|title=Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal\|date=1846\|publisher=J. Churchill\|language=en}}</ref>		In 1845,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> the [[Company rule in India\|government]] sponsored Chuckerbutty's travel to England for further medical education.<ref name="Lahiri2000">{{cite book\|last=Lahiri\|first=Shompa\|title=Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfGOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3\|year=2000\|publisher=Routledge\|location=Abingdon\|isbn=978-0-714-68049-1\|page=3}}</ref><ref name="Fisher2004">{{cite book\|last=Fisher\|first=Michael H.\|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA370\|year=2004\|publisher=Permanent Black\|location=Delhi\|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8\|page=370}}</ref> Together with Bholanath Bose from [[Barrackpore]] and Gopal Chunder Seal, who were sponsored by a regional entrepreneur, [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]<ref name="memoirK.M">{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182\|title=Memoir Of Dwarkanath Tagore\|last=Mittra\|first=Kissory Chand\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182/page/n173 107]}}</ref> and another student, Dwarka Nath Basu, the four travelled by ship with Goodeve.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/><ref name="RCSGoodeve">{{Cite web\|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002016b.htm\|title=Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online\|last=England\|first=Royal College of Surgeons of\|website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk\|language=en-gb\|access-date=22 August 2018}}</ref> Chuckerbutty was the youngest of them.<ref name="UCLNews">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/0416/28042016-ucllibraryservicesresearchesuclshistoricalroleinopeningupeducation\|title=UCL Library Services researches UCL's historical role in opening up education\|date=2016-04-28\|website=www.ucl.ac.uk\|language=en\|access-date=21 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="GoldMedal">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hVQAAAAYAAJ&q=Soorjo+Coomar+Chuckerbutty&pg=PA212\|title=Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal\|date=1846\|publisher=J. Churchill\|language=en}}</ref>

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'''Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty''', also spelled '''Surjo Kumar Chakraborty''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MRCS}} ({{circa|1826}} – 29 September 1874) was the first Indian to pass the examination of the [[Indian Medical Service]] (IMS) in 1855 and subsequently became the Professor of [[Materia Medica]] at [[Medical College Calcutta|Calcutta Medical College]] (CMC) in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Orphaned at the age of six, his aspirations for an English education led him to the [[Hare School]] and then entry into medicine at the Medical College of Bengal, where, under the guidance of retired professor of anatomy and obstetrics [[Henry Goodeve]] and funding from the [[Company rule in India|government]], he was one of the first four [[Brahmin]] medical students taken to England in 1845 for further medical training. Upon return to India in 1850, despite his achievements being celebrated and supported by some of his British colleagues, he was prohibited from taking up a senior post in the IMS. When the announcement to open the IMS examination to 'all' came in 1854, Chuckerbutty took the opportunity to take it and passed in second place.

Returning again to India, he became the first Indian professor of Medicine at the CMC. In addition, he co-founded the [[Bethune Society]] and became the president of the Bengal Branch of the [[British Medical Association]]. As one of the earliest Indians to contribute to western medicine, he published in medical journals including ''[[The Lancet]]'', the ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' and ''[[The Indian Medical Gazette]]''. Initially embracing the British ways of life, his later lectures, "Popular Lectures on Subjects of Indian Interest", following the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], reflected his changed opinion and criticism of European interest. He died in [[Kensington]] during a visit to London in 1874.

==Early life==
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty was born a [[Kulin Brahmin]], as Soorjo Coomar Chuckerbutty, in either 1824, 1826 or 1827 in Kanaksar, [[Bikrampur]] division, [[Dhaka]], [[British India]], to [[Special pleader|pleader]], Radhamadhab Chuckerbutty.<ref name="SenGupta1970">{{cite journal | journal=Med. Hist. | year=1970 | volume=14 | issue=2 | pages=183–191 | title=Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: the first Indian contributor to modern medical science | author=P. C. Sen Gupta | pmc=1034039 | pmid=4914687| doi=10.1017/S0025727300015374 }}</ref><ref name="Cunningham1997">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2O7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA175|title=Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge|last=Kumar|first=Deepak|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-7190-4673-5|editor=Cunningham|editor-first=Andrew|page=175|chapter=Unequal Contenders, uneven ground: medical encounters in British India , 1820-1920|editor-last2=Andrews|editor-first2=Bridie}}</ref> He was orphaned at the age of six.<ref name="BMJObit">{{Cite journal|last=Group|first=British Medical Journal Publishing|date=17 October 1874|title=Soorjocoomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty|url= |journal=Br Med J|language=en|volume=2|issue=720|pages=511|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.720.511|pmc=2295059|issn=0007-1447}}</ref> Subsequently he completed his early education in [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Sanskrit]] and [[Persian language in the Indian subcontinent|Persian]] at his home village school ([[Pathshala]]). Then, at the age of 13, he became influenced by an official visit and his first experience of hearing English. As a consequence, he travelled the sixty mile journey to [[Comilla]] where he was taken under a district court official, Golok Nath Sen, and attended the English school where in order to pay his way, he exchanged working as a cook for English lessons. He gained admission to the [[Hare School]] in [[Kolkata]] (then Calcutta).<ref name="SenGupta1970"/><ref name="Abhiroop2016"/>

==Early medical career==
Challenging Hindu prejudices against touching dead bodies had been instigated in the previous decade when CMC’s first anatomy professor, [[Henry Goodeve]] demonstrated anatomy to his first cohort of Hindu students in the 1830s.<ref name="BMJ1907">{{Cite journal|date=25 May 1907|title=British Medicine in India|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=1|issue=2421|pages=1245–1253|issn=0007-1447|pmc=2357439|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.2421.1245}}</ref> It was most likely as a result of his influence that Chuckerbuttty himself added "Goodeve" to his own name, inserting it before his surname,<ref name="Cunningham1997"/> and his [Henry Goodeve's] recommendation that he gained entry into the then new Medical College of Bengal (CMC), at his second attempt in 1844. The College had been established in 1835 by [[M. J. Bramley]], who was an advocate of travelling fellowships for bright students,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> and at the request of Goodeve, who had been proposing the extension of medical training to certain Hindus<ref name="RCSGoodeve"/> and who had offered to bear costs for one student, plans materialised for one such trip.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

In 1845,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> the [[Company rule in India|government]] sponsored Chuckerbutty's travel to England for further medical education.<ref name="Lahiri2000">{{cite book|last=Lahiri|first=Shompa|title=Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfGOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=978-0-714-68049-1|page=3}}</ref><ref name="Fisher2004">{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Michael H.|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600–1857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA370|year=2004|publisher=Permanent Black|location=Delhi|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8|page=370}}</ref> Together with Bholanath Bose from [[Barrackpore]] and Gopal Chunder Seal, who were sponsored by a regional entrepreneur, [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]<ref name="memoirK.M">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182|title=Memoir Of Dwarkanath Tagore|last=Mittra|first=Kissory Chand|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49182/page/n173 107]}}</ref> and another student, Dwarka Nath Basu, the four travelled by ship with Goodeve.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/><ref name="RCSGoodeve">{{Cite web|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002016b.htm|title=Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|last=England|first=Royal College of Surgeons of|website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref> Chuckerbutty was the youngest of them.<ref name="UCLNews">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/0416/28042016-ucllibraryservicesresearchesuclshistoricalroleinopeningupeducation|title=UCL Library Services researches UCL's historical role in opening up education|date=2016-04-28|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="GoldMedal">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hVQAAAAYAAJ&q=Soorjo+Coomar+Chuckerbutty&pg=PA212|title=Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal|date=1846|publisher=J. Churchill|language=en}}</ref>

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File:"The New Medical College Hospital, Calcutta," Illustrated London News, 1853.jpg|"The New Medical College Hospital, Calcutta," ''Illustrated London News'', 1853
File:Four Indian medical students in London.png|Four Indian medical students in London<ref name="Whitfield">{{cite journal |last1=Whitfield |first1=Michael J |title=Henry Hurry Goodeve (1807–1884), the first professor of Anatomy in India |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |date=26 March 2020 |pages=0967772020914113 |doi=10.1177/0967772020914113 |pmid=32216519 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0967772020914113 |language=en |issn=0967-7720|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
File:Henry Goodeve.png|Henry Goodeve<ref name="Whitfield"/>
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==Life in England==
[[File:Scientific American - Series 1 - Volume 003 - Issue 40.pdf|thumb|''Scientific American'' 1848, Goodeve-Chuckerbutty receives Diploma from London College of Surgeons]]
Chuckerbutty was Goodeve's favourite student.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/><ref name="Calcutta1924">{{cite book|title=Calcutta Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewwxAQAAMAAJ|year=1924|publisher=University of Calcutta|pages=102–104}}</ref> and much of Chuckerbutty's account of life in England comes from memoirs of Professor Goodeve, who described how he embraced and was charmed by the British ways of life and of Christianity, views that years later Chuckerbutty had changed opinion of.<ref name="Cunningham1997"/>

Having travelled to London with Goodeve,<ref name="Moody1863">{{cite book|last=Moody|first=George |title=The English journal of education, ed. by G. Moody|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA364|year=1863|page=364}}</ref> the four students also resided with him at 7 Upper Woburn Place.<ref name="Fisher2004"/> Chuckerbutty passed the first M.B. examination in the first division in 1847.<ref name="LMG1847">{{cite book|title=London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7YtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA393|year=1847|page=392}}</ref> He became a member of the [[Royal College of Surgeons]] (RCS) in 1848.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> At one point during his training, he was awarded the gold medal for [[comparative anatomy]], before completing his [[Doctor of medicine|M.D.]] in 1849, in the first division and achieving the second place in order of merit.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/><ref>Waltroud, Ernst (2014), p.209</ref> Minimum age requirements for the examinations meant that he attained his qualifications two years after the other students.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> On Chuckerbutty's behalf, Goodeve had successfully requested for further funding and an extension to stay.<ref name="Cowper1848">{{cite book|last=Cowper|first=William|title=The works of William Cowper, with a life of the author, by the editor R. Southey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA87|year=1848|page=87}}</ref>

In 1848, he reported to the Medical College in Calcutta, his spontaneous conversion to Christianity and his adoption of his new name Soorjo Coomar "Goodeve" Chuckerbutty.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

Chuckerbutty had a particular close tie with the professor of comparative anatomy, [[Robert Edmond Grant]], who previously taught [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/> Professor Grant also mentored Chuckerbutty and allowed him to be involved in three of his [[natural history]] expeditions around Europe. By the end of these trips, he had taught himself French and German,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> and some of his notes from these voyages were later published.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/> He would have perhaps taken a fourth journey, had the [[French Revolution of 1848]] not interrupted its plans.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> Once, Chuckerbutty took one of Professor Grant's lectures, teaching comparative anatomy to a class of more than five hundred.<ref name="Kling1976">{{cite book|last=Kling|first=Blair B. |title=Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India|url=https://archive.org/details/partnerinempired0000klin|url-access=registration|year=1976|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02927-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/partnerinempired0000klin/page/232 232]}}</ref>

==Indian Medical Service==
Before 1855, Indians were not permitted to take senior appointments in the IMS.<ref name= Waltroud,Ernst(2014)/> The recommendation by barrister and advocate of educating higher caste Hindus [[Edward Ryan (barrister)|Sir Edward Ryan]], after whom Chuckerbutty later named his elder son, proposed that Chuckerbutty should be appointed to the covenanted medical service and a professorship at the CMC on his return to India in 1850. However, this was denied by authorities and he therefore, took up a post as an assistant physician to the uncovenanted service at the Calcutta Medical Hospital (CMH) in 1850.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

In 1854, under the uncovenanted medical service, he was appointed the Professor of ''[[Materia Medica]]'' and Clinical Medicine and Second Physician to the Hospital.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> Opportunities for Indians to take up higher posts was one mission of Sir Edwards,<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/> and in 1854, the [[East India Company]] opened up the covenanted Medical Service examination to all.<ref name= Waltroud,Ernst(2014)>{{cite book|last=Ernst|first=Waltraud|title=Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925–1940|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=En-WBQAAQBAJ&q=chuckerbutty&pg=PA209|year=2014|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=978-0-85728-019-0|pages=1–2}}</ref> As a consequence, Chuckerbutty decided to travel back to London to sit it. He was one of the twenty-two candidates out of twenty-eight,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> and the first Indian to pass this exam of the IMS in January 1855, coming second<ref name="RCSGoodeve" /><ref name="Crawford2012">{{cite book|author=Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford|title=Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615–1930 – Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PR36|year=1930|publisher=Thacker & Co|isbn=978-1-78150-229-7|page=36}}</ref><ref name="Pande2009">{{cite book|last=Pande|first=Ishita |title=Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1HgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-77815-2|page=92}}</ref> after George Marr. Subsequently, he was appointed to the covenanted medical service as Assistant Surgeon in January 1855. In 1867 he became Surgeon and in 1873, Surgeon Major to the Bengal Army.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

However, public and official statements did not always reflect official sentiment and what really happened in practice.<ref name= Waltroud,Ernst(2014)/> The years leading up to his professorship witnessed social and unofficial prejudices,<ref name= Waltroud,Ernst(2014)/> resulting in a series of fleeting positions as Professor of Materia Medica,<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> a permanent position only being granted in 1866 after [[Norman Chevers]] had retired.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> Chuckerbutty was the first Indian to have this position.<ref name=UCLNews/><ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the History of Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9b4eAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press}}</ref> Preconceptions also arose from Indians. The social stigma from dissecting a corpse and travelling abroad counted him an outcast for much of the Indian community.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

==Medical contributions==
He published notes on a case of [[epilepsy]] in the ''Medical Times and Gazette'', London, in 1852, whilst he was assistant physician at the CMH.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

His writings in the 1850s show he was also a Nationalist and he campaigned to structure and extend education among Indians, particularly to introduce gymnasiums and sports including cricket and fencing to the Indian youth. He lobbied for education in languages and traditional studies, and proposed improved sanitation in Calcutta. His articles on dysentery and cholera were published in the ''Indian Annals''.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

In his lecture dated 8 July 1858, more than a year before [[Charles Darwin]]'s release of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'', Chukerbutty commented; "When God made some men dark and other men fair, he had a great purpose to serve. He did not make climates for men, but men for climates". Both, had been mentored and influenced by the same teacher (Professor Grant), raising the question of whether Chuckerbutty had spoken about evolution first.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.143473/2015.143473.Popular-Lectures-On-Subjects-Of-Indian-Interest#page/n75/search/climates+for Chuckerbutty, S Goodeve (1870) p.85]</ref>

19th century British medicine in India had its concerns with India’s many febrile illnesses and epidemics and some leading physicians disputed the existence of [[typhus]] in India. Chuckerbutty, however, was one who believed otherwise and reported on cases of typhus in Calcutta that he had treated in 1864.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lalchhandama|first=K.|date=2017|title=Rickettsiosis as a critical emerging infectious disease in India|url=http://oaji.net/articles/2017/1315-1528806993.pdf|journal=Science Visual|volume=4|pages=250–259}}</ref>

In addition to leading roles in a number of Calcutta's hospitals and dispensaries, he published in the ''Medical Times and Gazette'', ''the Lancet'', the ''British Medical Journal'', the ''Indian Medical Gazette'' and the ''Indian Annals of Medical Science of Calcutta''. He also edited the fourth edition of Goodeve's ''[[Hints on Children in India]]''.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

==Other roles==
In 1863, he was appointed Fellow of the [[Calcutta University]] and he became a Justice of the Peace for the town of Calcutta in the same year. With the coloured elite and a group of liberal white men, he co-founded the Bethune Society in 1851, and also co-founded the Bengal Branch of the British Medical Association, becoming its president for one year.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/><ref name= Waltroud,Ernst(2014)/>

In 1870, he published a collection of his lectures from the previous two decades, "Popular Lectures on Subjects of Indian Interest", following the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] and which reflected his changed opinion and criticism of European interest. In the same publication, he advocated educating Indians and he also disclosed that at least two ex-students of CMC had joined the sepoys in the Indian Rebellion.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/><ref name="Chuckerbutty, S Goodeve (1870)">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143473|title=Popular Lectures On Subjects Of Indian Interest|last=Chuckerbutty|first=S Goodeve|date=1870}}</ref>

==Family==
Chuckerbuty married Sarah and had four sons and two daughters.<ref name="Abhiroop2016"/>

Sarah died in 1878. Of the six children that are known, Henry Scott Ryan became a Barrister, practised at the [[Calcutta High Court]] and in 1902, co-authored a book on becoming a Barrister.
William Maurice attended the [[University of London]] to study science and was the father of the famous pianist [[Oliphant Chuckerbutty]]. Alfred joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1889 and Marie Ann studied at the [[Cambridge University|University of Cambridge]]. Another daughter to be educated in England was Martha.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/>

==Death and legacy==
Chuckerbuty suffered from multiple [[asthma attacks]] and suspected [[heart failure]], and therefore took a leave from work in 1874.<ref name="SenGupta1970"/> However, he died the same year in [[Kensington]], aged 48,<ref name="DeathReg">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837–1915''</ref> and was buried in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in West London.<ref name="Abhiroop2016">[https://www.asian-voice.com/Community/Soorjo-Coomar-Goodeve-Chuckerbutty-Sowing-the-seeds-of-change-for-generations-t Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: Sowing the seeds of change for generations to come.] Abhiroop Sengupta, ''Asian Voice'', 12 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2018.</ref>

At the CMC, he was succeeded by R. C. Chandra.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=May 1913|title=Indians of the Indian Medical Service|journal=The Indian Medical Gazette|volume=48|issue=5|pages=190|pmc=5177079|pmid=29005760}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*{{cite journal | pmid = 20744107 | doi=10.1136/bmj.2.81.61 | volume=2 | title=Medical College Hospital, Calcutta | pmc=2288187 | year=1862 | journal=British Medical Journal | pages=61–4 | last1 = Chuckerbutty | first1 = SG| issue=81 }}.
*{{cite journal | pmid = 20744110 | doi=10.1136/bmj.2.82.85 | volume=2 | title=Medical College Hospital, Calcutta | pmc=2288093 | year=1862 | journal=British Medical Journal| pages=85–6 | last1 = Chuckerbutty | first1 = SG| issue=82 }}
*[https://archive.org/details/b22343805 "Cases illustrative of the Pathology of Dysentery"], Military Orphan Press, Calcutta, 1865.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7_tZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA7&dq=goodeve-chuckerbutty&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA1IvJsf7cAhUkDcAKHZTeBUIQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=goodeve-chuckerbutty&f=false "Cholera, its symptoms, clinical history, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prophylaxis"], R. C. Lepage and Co, Calcutta, 1867.
*{{cite journal | pmid = 28996176 | volume=2 | title=On the Pathology of Hepatic Abscess as a Result of Dysentery | pmc=5162330 | year=1867 | journal=Indian Medical Gazette | pages=222–223 | last1 = Chuckerbutty | first1 = SG| issue=9 }}
*{{cite journal | pmid = 28996052 | volume=2 | title=Local Correspondence | pmc=5162188 | year=1867 | journal=Indian Medical Gazette | page=276 | last1 = Chuckerbutty | first1 = SG| issue=11 }}
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.143473/2015.143473. ''Popular Lectures on Subjects of Indian Interest''], Thomas S. Smith, Calcutta, 1870.
*{{cite journal | pmid = 28995162 | volume=7 | title=A Case of Lacerated and Contused Wound of the Scrotum | pmc=5132653 | year=1872 | journal=Indian Medical Gazette | page=249 | last1 = Chuckerbutty | first1 = SC| issue=11 }}

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.39206/2015.39206.Transactions-Of-The-Bengal-Social-Science-Assocition--Vol-5-6#page/n97/search/chuckerbutty Transactions Of The Bengal Social Science Association Vol. 5, 6]
*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2261369/pdf/brmedj05476-0010b.pdf Notes on Books], ''The British Medical Journal'' (1870)
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