| 词条 | Wilfred Miller Vincent Koch |
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Wilfred Miller Vincent Koch (29 October 1862 – 28 August 1939) was a British surgeon and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. BiographyKoch was born on 29 October 1862 in Jaffna, Ceylon, son of Edwin Lawson Koch, descendent of Godfried Koch of Brandenburg Prussia and a respected doctor in Ceylon. Koch Sr. died suddenly in 1877 and the Ceylon public offered subscription to pay W. V. M. Koch's medical education in Britain. He was educated in St. Thomas' College, Ceylon and then obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery in 1884 and Doctor of Medicine in 1895 from the Edinburgh University.[1] After graduation worked as a medical officer in various hospitals in London and Sheffield from 1884 to 1888. In 1889, he joined the Colonial Medical Services and was sent to Trinidad between 1889 and 1903. He was an Army Major in command of the Trinidad Artillery.[1] Koch moved to Hong Kong in 1903 as a government doctor. In 1914, he was promoted to Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital until he began his private pracitice in 1917. He was the Vice-President of the British Medical Association, Hong Kong Branch in 1907 to 1908. He was also a District Surgeon of the St. John Ambulance Overseas Brigade. He was hired as Lecturer in Surgery of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese which turned into the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1912. He was in the University Senate in 1912 and continued as a Lecturer of the University until 1917.[1] He was member of the Sanitary Board from 1920 to 1931. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1926 and Licensing Board in 1927.[1] He married three times in his life, Ida Nathan, Ellen Elliot Drake Briscoe and Elsie M. Thompson.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://hkmd1841-1941.blogspot.hk/2013/09/dr-wilfred-vincent-miller-koch-1903.html|title=Koch, Wilfred Vincent Miller (1903)|work=Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitioners in Hong Kong:1841-1941}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before = Francis Bulmer Lyon Bowley}}{{s-ttl | title = Member of the Sanitary Board| years = 1920–1931}}{{s-aft | after = Leonard Charles Fenton Bellamy}}{{s-par|hk}}{{s-bef | before = Henry Edward Pollock}}{{s-ttl | title = Unofficial Member for the Justices of the Peace | years = 1926}}{{s-aft | after = Henry Edward Pollock}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Wilfred Miller Vincent}} 13 : 1862 births|1939 deaths|Academics of the University of Hong Kong|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|British expatriates in Hong Kong|British expatriates in Sri Lanka|British expatriates in Trinidad and Tobago|British surgeons|Hong Kong surgeons|Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong|People from Jaffna|Sri Lankan surgeons |
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