Background
SMITH, William Ramsay was born on November 27, 1859 in King Edward, Aberdeenshire. Son of William Smith and Mary MacDonald.
SMITH, William Ramsay was born on November 27, 1859 in King Edward, Aberdeenshire. Son of William Smith and Mary MacDonald.
Studied at Moray House Training College. University, Edinburgh. Prizeman and Honoursman in Arts, Science, and Medical Classes, and took Natural Science Honours for Master of Arts degree.
Doctor of Science; Bachelor of Medicine. Master in Surgery.
President of University Philosophical Society, 1883-1884. Vans Dunlox Scholar in Medicine, 1884. Assistant Professor of Natural History and Senior Demonstrator of Zoology, Ed inburgh University, 1885-1890.
Demonstrator of Anatomy, Edinburgh School of Medicine, 1890-1892. Examiner for Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Physician to Adelaide Hpspital, 1896- 1903.
Inspector of Anatomy and Superintendent of University School of Anatomy, 1899-1903. Commanding Officer “A” Battery Field Artillery, 1900-1901. Surgeon-Ca])tain on active service, and Special Officer for Plague Administration (Imperial) in South Africa, 1901 (Queen’s medal, 2 clasps).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Principal Medical Officer, Commonwealth Military Forces in South Australia, 1903. Made Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland, 1885, in recognition of services to education. Represented South Australian Government at the Plague Conference, Melbourne, 1900, and the Commonwealth Quarantine Conferences, 1904 and 1909.
Was commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to inquire and report on diseases in the South Sea Islands, 1905, and the East Indies, 1906. Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Institute of Public Health. President of Justices’ Association of S. Australia, 1906-1908, and of Public Service Association, 1909.
Member of Lunacy Royal Commission, 1909. Has been engaged as medico-legal expert for the Crown in almost every important criminal trial in South Australia since 1897. President Central Board of Health, and Permanent Head of Health Dex^artment of South Australia since 1899. Justice of the Peace; City Coroner.
Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Club: Naval and Military.