Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe

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Creator(s): Sibthorpe, Charles, 1847-1906

• Administrative History ↴

  Charles Sibthorpe was born in Dublin in 1847. He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and at the Meath Hospital. In 1870 he joined the Indian Medical Service as Assistant-Surgeon. Following some years of official work in the civilian and military departments, he was appointed Civil Surgeon and Superintendent of the Gaol at Banda, in the Central Provinces (Uttra Pradesh). In 1875 he was transferred to Madras (now Chennai) and appointed Resident Surgeon to the General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at the Madras Medical College. He remained at both institutions until 1890, serving successively as Professor of Opthalmology, Anatomy and Surgery. In 1894 he was appointed Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras, a post he held until 1900. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and in 1897 a CB (Companion of the Order of the Bath). Sibthorpe volunteered for active service with the Indian Medical Service in 1878 when he served with the Peshawar Valley Field Forces in Afganistan. In 1885 he transferred to active service again, this time in Burma, where he was staff surgeon to Sir H Prendergast the officer in command of the British forces in Upper Burma. Sibthorpe retired from the Indian Medical Service in August 1900, he returned to Dublin where he lived with his sisters, until his death in 1906.

• Archival History ↴

  The collection seems to have been donated to the College by the Miss Sibthorpes, who donated several other items to the College after their brothers death.

• Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

  Donation