Background
CORNEY, Bolton Glanvill was born in 1851 in Barnes, Surrey. Son of Bolton Corney, M.R.S.L., of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, literary and antiquarian critic, and Henrietta Mary, daughter of Vice-Admiral Pridham, Royal Navy.
CORNEY, Bolton Glanvill was born in 1851 in Barnes, Surrey. Son of Bolton Corney, M.R.S.L., of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, literary and antiquarian critic, and Henrietta Mary, daughter of Vice-Admiral Pridham, Royal Navy.
Privately, in France, England, and Germany.
Entered St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1869. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Corresponding Associate of the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic.
Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute. Member of the Hakluyt Society. Surgeon Superintendent of Melanesian immigrants, Fiji, 1876.
Colonial Surgeon, Fiji, 1877. Acting Chief Medical Officer, 1882-1883. Appointed Official Delegate from Fiji on Australasian Sanitary Conference at Sydney, 1884.
Acting Agent-General of Immigration, 1885-1887. Member Native Regulation Board, Member Legislative Council, 1885. Chief Medical Officer, 1887.
Superintendent Public Lunatic Asylum, 1887- 1903. Acting Receiver-General,,1892, and Member Executive Council. A Commissioner to inquire into decrease of native population.
Chairman of same Commission, and joint author of Report, 1893. Commissioner to investigate misgovernment of Tailevu province by native Chief, 1895. A Commissioner of Customs.
Pres, of Board of Health (Fiji). Received the thanks of the Royal Society for assistance given to the Coral investigation expedition to Funafuti under Professor Sollas (1896) and Professor David (1897). Governor’s Deputy to visit the Leper Asylum.
Publications in Transactions of the Epi- 440 demiological Society ot London—On Epidemic Diseases in Polynesia,, 1884. On Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. On Dengue; Folk Lore Society—On Leprosy Stones, 1890.
Contributions to the Lancet, the Practitioner, the Hospital, the Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, etc. Imperial Service Order, late Member Legislative Council and Chief Medical Officer, Fiji.
Member Royal College of Surgeons (England).