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Principals of
King Edward VII College of Medicine
A Biographical Sketch

 

R. D. Keith (Robert Donald Keith)
1909-1918

 

 


Education
Aberdeen Grammar School
M.A. (Aberdeen Uni.)
M.B., CH.B. with honours (Aberdeen Uni.)
M.D. with honours (Aberdeen Uni.)

Awarded Carnegie Research Scholarship and studied at Leipzig and Tubingen.

 

Career

 
circa 1904 Spent several months as an assistant to one of the leading private practitioners in Aberdeenshire
 
1908 Physiologist and assistant pathologist, Medical School, Singapore
 
1909-1918 Principal, Medical School, Singapore

 

 
 

 

Offices held

In 1908, he proceeded to Manila as representative for the Colony at the Philippine Islands Medical Association.

Joined the 1st Volunteer battalion Gordon Highlanders while he was a student.
He was appointed:
1911 Surgeon Lieutenant, Singapore Volunteer Corps
1912 Surgeon Captain,
Singapore Volunteer Corps
1912-1918 Captain, Singapore Volunteer Corps


Member
, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Medical Council
Member, Straits Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
Council, Straits Branch, Royal Asiatic Society

 

 

Honours

Won a number of class prizes during his University career, including gold medals in surgery, medicine and midwifery.

 

 

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