Background
BIDIE, George was born in April 1830.
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George BIDIE
George BIDIE, British Professor of Botany. Decorated for the discovery in 1867 of a preventive for aD insect pest which threatened the extinction of the Coffee plantations in Southern India; on Field Service, Mutiny (medal and good service pension); Descriptive Catalogue of Raw Products of South India sent to Paris Exhibition, 1878 (gold medal).
Education
Locally; Aberdeen Grammar School. University of Aberdeen. Bachelor of Medicine Aberdeen, 1853.
Career
Civil Service and Licentiate in Midwifery Edinburgh, 1853. Fellow of and late Pres, of Medical Faculty, Madras University. Fellow of the Zoological Society.
Memb. of Board for Civil Service Exams., Madras. Appointed Honourable E.l. Company’s Madras Medical Service, 1856.
Served with Madras Artillerv and 12th Ryl. LaDcers, 1856-1858.
1st Infantyy Hyderabad Contingent, 1858-1860. On Field Service, Mutiny (medal and good service pension).
Professor of Botany and Materia Medica in Madras Medical College. Superintendent of Lunatic Asylum, Madras, 1866-1870. Secretary and Statistical Officer in head office of Medical Department, 1870-1883.
With conjoint charge Govert. Central Museum, to which got added a Free Public Library, 1872-1885. Deputy Surgeon- General and in charge of British Burma Division, 1884.
Sanitary Commissioner Madras Presidency, 1885-1886. Surgeon-General 1886. Decorated for the discovery in 1867 of a preventive for aD insect pest which threatened the extinction of the Coffee plantations in Southern India.
Member of Madras Committee for framing scheme of technical education. Honourable Surgeon to Viceroy of India (1887); Honourable Surgeon to the Queen, 1898 : Honourable Surgeon to the King, 1901; Surgeon-General of Madras Presidency, 1886-1890.
Membership
Club: Madras.
Interests
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Zoology, botany, angling.
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Nationality
British
Official Titles
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Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1883). Surgeon-General.
Awards
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Decorated for the discovery in 1867 of a preventive for aD insect pest which threatened the extinction of the Coffee plantations in Southern India. On Field Service, Mutiny (medal and good service pension). Descriptive Catalogue of Raw Products of South India sent to Paris Exhibition, 1878 (gold medal).Decorated for the discovery in 1867 of a preventive for aD insect pest which threatened the extinction of the Coffee plantations in Southern India. On Field Service, Mutiny (medal and good service pension). Descriptive Catalogue of Raw Products of South India sent to Paris Exhibition, 1878 (gold medal).