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Authorised form of nameLeishman; Sir; William Boog (1865 - 1926); bacteriologist, pathologist, and British Army medical officer
Dates1865 - 1926
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland
Date of birth06 November 1865
Place of deathQueen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, London, England
Date of death02/06/1926
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Occupationbacteriologist, pathologist, and British Army medical officer
Research fieldParasitic diseases
Foot and mouth disease
Infectious diseases
Tropical diseases
Pathology
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; MB; CM (Glasgow)
Career:
Entered Army Medical Service passing fifth into the Army Medical School at Netley, Hampshire (1887); posted to India (1890-7); promoted to rank of major in the Royal Army Medical Corps & posted back to Netley (1899); succeeded as assistant professor of pathology (1900); identified the causative parasite of kala-azar or Dum-dum fever (1900); modified Romanovsky's stain resulting in easier diagnosis of malaria in tropical regions (1901); appointed professor of pathology at the Army Medical School, Millbank (1903-1913); joined the British expeditionary force as adviser in pathology (1914); became the first director of pathology at the War Office (1919); appointed medical director-general of the army medical services, with the rank of lieutenant-general (1923).
Honours:
CB ; KCMG 1918; KCB 1923
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1910
Age at election45
ProposerPatrick Manson; George Henry Falkiner Nuttall; Ronald Ross; Almorth Edward Wright; Frederick Walker Mott; Lauder Brunton; Frederick William Pavy; Henry Charlton Bastian
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1921-1922
Council
RelationshipsParents: William Leishman (1833–1894), regius professor of midwifery in the University of Glasgow, and Augusta Selina, eldest daughter of George Drevar, of Rosehill, Blackrock, co. Dublin.
Spouse: Maud Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Gunter, of the East Lancashire regiment.
Children: One son and three daughter
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1928 vol 102 pp ix-xvii, plate, signed by C J M
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/84822348
CodeNA3828
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1910/13Leishman, Sir William Boog: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CMB/53/22Minutes, meeting of the Kala Azar Sub-Committee18 February 1925
CMB/53/23Minutes, meeting of the Kala Azar Sub-Committee16 March 1925
CMB/53/21Minutes, meeting of the Kala Azar Sub-Committee28 January 1925
CMB/53/20Minutes, meeting of the Kala Azar Sub-Committee15 December 1924
RR/18/146Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'Immunisation by means of bacterial endotoxins' by R Tanner Hewlett2 April 1911
RR/19/109Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'An improved method for opsonic index estimations, involving the separation of red and white human blood corpuscles' by Charles Russ25 February 1912
NLB/42/377Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 June 1910
NLB/42/403Copy letter from Theodore E James to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 June 1910
NLB/42/700Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 August 1910
NLB/45/38Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Lt-Col Sir W [William] B [Boog] Leishman FRS 11 December 1911
NLB/46/419Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Leishman, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Army Medical College, Grosvenor Road, S.W.29 July 1912
NLB/50/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, Fellow of the Royal Society19 May 1914
RR/21/40Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'Infectivity of Glossina morsitans in Nyasaland [Malawi] during 1912 and 1913' by David Bruce, A E Hamerton, D P Watson and Lady Bruce[May 1914]
NLB/62/413Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS10 February 1922
RR/19/104Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'Notes on the life-history of Trypanosoma gambiense, with a brief reference to the cycles of Trypanosoma nanum and Trypanosoma pecorum in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson[November 1912]
RR/19/99Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'A preliminary report on the treatment of human trypano­somiasis and yaws with metallic antimony' by H S Ranken[January 1912]
RR/20/14Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'The Trypanosomes causing dourine (mal de boit or bechalseuche)' by B Blacklock and W YorkeJuly 1913
NLB/57/517Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS, KCMG21 November 1919
NLB/67/652Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, KCB, FRS7 February 1925
NLB/62/427Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS14 February 1922
NLB/60/719Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS18 March 1921
RR/20/44Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'Further researches on the extrusion of granules by trypanosomes and on their further development' by W B Fry and H S RankenJanuary 1913
NLB/57/444Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, FRS10 November 1919
NLB/61/858Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; 8-11 Queen Square, W.C.l.4 November 1921
NLB/62/143Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Edward] F. Knapp Fisher Esquire; Secretary to the Governing Body of Westminster School; the Sanctuary, S.W.l.9 December 1921
NLB/57/513Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, FRS20 November 1919
NLB/62/306Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS20 January 1922
NLB/62/801Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, FRS9 May 1922
NLB/63/508Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, FRS01 November 1922
NLB/62New Letter Book volume 62, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration11 November 1921-10 June 1922
NLB/63/670Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, FRS28 November 1922
NLB/64/795Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Walter Fletcher, FRS19 June 1923
NLB/64/753Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society;to Godfrey [Lampson Tennyson] Locker-Lampson Esq.14 June 1923
NLB/67/662Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCB, KCMG, FRS10 February 1925
NLB/67/783Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCB, KCMG, FRS7 March 1925
NLB/67/457Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Boog] Leishman, KCB, KCMG, FRS2 January 1925
NLB/67/624Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS2 February 1925
NLB/67/732Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Leonard Rogers, FRS24 February 1925
NLB/67/760Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCMG, FRS2 March 1925
NLB/67/671Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCB, KCMG, FRS12 February 1925
NLB/67/830Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCMG, FRS18 March 1925
NLB/67/915Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCB, KCMG, FRS7 April 1925
NLB/68/219Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCMG, FRS29 May 1925
CMB/53/24Minutes, meeting of the Kala Azar Sub-Committee12 May 1925
NLB/67/734Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Leishman, KCMG, FRS24 February 1925
NLB/69/591Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [William] Bulloch, FRS12 June 1926
NLB/69/839Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS29 October 1926
NLB/69/922Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 8 Queen Square, Bloombury, WC117 November 1926
NLB/69/919Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, C.M.G., FRS17 November 1926
NLB/42/433Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] Barcroft, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society]13 June 1910
NLB/66/50Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [to the Public Press]14 February 1924
NLB/66/2Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign.1 February 1924
NLB/69/692Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Sir Walter [Morley] Fletcher, FRS23 July 1926
CD/71/6Letter from [the Royal Society], to Sir William Leishman4 July 1919
NLB/67New Letter Book volume 67, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 September 1924-23 April 1925
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/27/43Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'An inquiry into an outbreak of human trypanosomiasis in a “Glossina morsitans” belt to the east of Mwanza, Tanganyika territory' by H Lyndhurst Duke12 November 1922
MDA/C/9/8Correspondence on the Foulerton Professorship held by Ernest Henry Starling1922-1928
MC/27/221Letter from [William Boog] Leishman, Fairy Knowe, Blairmore, Greenock, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]31 July 1912
MC/39Volume 39 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1925
MC/39/71Letter from [William Boog] Leishman, War Office, Whitehall, to [William Bate] Hardy6 April 1925
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