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	Lieutenant-Colonel '''William Frederick Harvey''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh\|FRCPE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\|FRSE]] (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in [[India]].		Lieutenant-Colonel '''William Frederick Harvey''' [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]] [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh\|FRCPE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\|FRSE]] (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in [[India]].

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Lieutenant-Colonel '''William Frederick Harvey''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|FRCPE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in [[India]].

==Life==
Harvey, the son of Robert Harvey, attended [[Dollar Academy]] then studied medicine at the [[University of Edinburgh]] graduating MA in 1893 and MB in 1897.

In 1905/6 he received a Diploma in Public Health.<ref>British Medical Journal, 3 February 1906</ref> He was a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.

In 1907 he was posted to [[Sierra Leone]] to work on a cure for [[trypanosomiasis]]. From 1908 he was stationed in [[India]] with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]]. As part of the Indian Medical Service he was based at [[Kasauli]].

In the [[First World War]] he was initially based in Bombay, on training duties, then served with the Sanitary Division of the ADMS in [[Mesopotamia]] and was [[Mentioned in Dispatches]]. He was the joint creator, with [[Robert J. Blackham]], of the "Harvey-Blackham" pattern used on St John’s Ambulances in the Far East.

Returning again to India he served as Director of the Central Research Institute of India. He was awarded the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1921. He retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1925 and returned to Scotland to live in [[Edinburgh]]. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://archives.wellcomelibrary.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=33&dsqSearch=(Sources_guides_used='Tropical%20Medicine')|title=Wellcome Library Western Manuscripts and Archives catalogue|website=archives.wellcomelibrary.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-23}}</ref>

In 1926 he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[Alexander Gray McKendrick]], [[James Hartley Ashworth]], [[Arthur Crichton Mitchell]] and [[David Waterston]]. He served as the Society’s Vice President from 1946 to 1948.<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_indexp1.pdf}}</ref>

He died in [[Edinburgh]] on 11 September 1948.

==Publications==
See<ref name=":0" />

*''Principal Diseases affecting Troops and Animals in [[Sierra Leone]]'' (1908)
*''Bombay Presidency Branch of the Imperial Indian Relief Fund. War 1914-1915'' (1915)

==Family==
He was married to Jean Sutherland in 1910.

==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Scottish medical doctors]]
[[Category:People educated at Dollar Academy]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]]
[[Category:Indian Medical Service officers]]

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