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Name: BAGSHAWE, Arthur William Garrard CMG (Dr.), Sir

Nee: son of Alfred Drake Bagshawe of Taynton, Gloucs.

Birth Date: 29 July 1871 St. Leonards on Sea

Death Date: 24 Mar 1950 Cardiff

Nationality: British

First Date: 1899

Profession: Appointed a Medical Officer in Uganda and was a member of the Anglo German Boundary Commission 1902.

Area: Uganda, EAHB 1905 - Medical Officer, Uganda Prot., EAHB 1906 Entebbe

Married: In Westminster 20 Sep 1910 Alice Mary Thornber b. 10 Jan 1875 West Ham, Essex, d. 26 Apr 1944 Surrey

Children: Thornber (1911 Watford-1996); Christopher Frederick (24 Apr 1913 Twickenham-1959)

Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Web

School: Marlborough College and Caius College Cambridge (Exhibitioner)

General Information:

EAHB 1905 - Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate, Oct. 13th 1900; accompanied Lango Field Force, April to August 1901 and Anglo German Boundary Commission May 1902

Drumkey 1909 - Medical Dept. - Medical Officer - A.G. Bagshawe

North - From Portland Place, London; MO at Nairobi, June 1903; on leave in Leamington Spa 17-8-1904; arr Mombasa from England 16-11-1904; being treated for syphilis at Entebbe June 1905; Member of Uganda Volunteer Reserve Sept 1905.

Web - Cambridge Alumni - MB and BC 1895; DPH 1908. At St. Georges Hospital, London. MRCS, LRCP 1895. House Physician at the Great Northern Central Hospital, London, 1898. Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate 1900-07. Member of the African entomological Research Committee 1909. Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, London 1908-12; of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases 1912-35. Mary Kingsley Medallist 1920. CMG 1915. Knighted 1933. President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1935. Of Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey; Married and had issue.

Moyse - medical officer attached to Nile Military expedition in 1899 under Capt. Delme-Radcliffe
Anna Crozier, The Colonial Medical Officer, PH.D. thesis, UCL 2005: Career: House Surg., East London Hospital for Children; Asst. Med. Registrar. St. Georges Hospital, House Phys. and Senior House Surg. Great Northern Central Hospital (1896-99); MO Uganda (1900-08); Director Sleeping Sickness Bureau London (later Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases) (1908-35); President Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1935-7); died South Wales. Principal medical interests: trypanosomiasis, public health, natural history. Accolades: CMG (1915); knighted (1933)

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