| 词条 | Percy Samuel Lelean |
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Prof Percy Samuel Lelean CB CMG Order of the Nile MID FRSE FRCS DPH (1871–1956) was a Canadian-born surgeon who specialised in issues of Public Health. He served with distinction in the First World War LifeHe was born in Canada on 21 July 1871 the son of William Cox Lelean. He studied Medicine at Hart House in Canada then sent to Britain to St Mary's Hospital, London.[1] In the First Boer War he volunteered for the Army Medical Services and saw action throughout South Africa, winning the Queen’s Medal four times. Staying in Africa he served on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission in 1903, considering international boundaries from the River Niger to Lake Chad. He then served as an army surgeon in India until 1912.[1] He served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War.[2] He was four times Mentioned in Dispatches. During the war he was also employed as a specialist at the Anti Gas Department in Millbank.[3] He retired from the army at the rank of Colonel in 1922. In 1926 he took the Usher Chair in Public Health at Edinburgh University. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Ralph Allan Sampson, James Hartley Ashworth, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and Sir William Wright Smith.[4] In 1944 he retired fully and was succeeded by Prof Francis Albert Eley Crew.[5] He died in London on 6 November 1956. Publications
FamilyIn 1902 he married Mary Ellen Gillam of Stourbridge. They had two daughters. References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E005211b.htm|title=LeLean, Percy Samuel - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|website=livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk|accessdate=2018-04-10}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lelean, Percy Samuel}}2. ^British Medical Journal: 5 April 1915 3. ^Glimpsing Modernity: Military Medicine in WW1, Craig & Smith 4. ^{{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}} 5. ^British Medical Journal: 1 April 1944 8 : 1871 births|1956 deaths|Canadian surgeons|Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada|Canadian non-fiction writers |
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