Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police

Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police was a post created in 1865 to oversee the healthcare of officers of the Metropolitan Police.

It was a renaming of the post of Superintending Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police held by John William Fisher from 1830 until 1865.^[1] It was itself renamed Physician and Chief Medical Officer of the Metropolitan Police from 1926 to 1957^[2] before reverting to Chief Surgeon until 1978, when it became Chief Medical Officer of the Metropolitan Police.

List

1865-1885 -Timothy Holmes
1885-1904 - Alexander Oberlin Mackellar
1904-1912 - Clinton Thomas Dent
1912-1926 - Charles Alfred Ballance
1926-1929 - Maurice Cassidy
1929-1957 - Isaac Jones
1957-1978 - Robert Wallace Nevin
1978-1992 - Edward Charles Arden Bott

References

^ Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979, page 108
^ Fairfax, Quills, page 118

[Fair108-1] Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979, page 108

[2] Fairfax, Quills, page 118

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