Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police
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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
[edit]- 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