| Authorised form of name | Houston; Sir; Alexander Cruikshank (1865 - 1933); water supply and public health expert |
| Dates | 1865 - 1933 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Mysore, Karnātaka, India, Asia |
| Date of birth | 18 September 1865 |
| Place of death | Hampstead, London, England |
| Date of death | 29/10/1933 |
| Occupation | Public health: purification of water supplies |
| Research field | Public health |
| Activity | Education:
MB, CM (1889); BSc (1891); DSc (1892)
Career:
Studied lead poisoning within water supplies for the Local Government Board (1893); began working for London County Council (1898); employed as a bcterioologist with the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal (1899); became Director of Water Examinations to the Metrpolitan Water Board (1905); studied effects of water supply on specific plants and milk production as well as establishing links between typhoid and water supply; worked on the Belfast Health Inquiry and established safe water suppy for Cairo, Egypt (1907); in collaboration with Sir Alexander Binnie visited Ottawa, Canada, to report of the water supply there (1913).
Honours:
KBE (1918); CVO (1919)
Memberships:
FRSE |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1931 |
| Age at election | 66 |
| Proposer | Frederick William Andrewes; William Bulloch; James Alexander Murray; Mervyn Henry Gordon; William Whiteman Carlton Topley; Stewart Ranken Douglas; Walter Morley Fletcher |
| Relationships | Parents: John Houston, Surgeon General of the Indian Medical Service (IMS), and Isabella Mitchell.
Spouse: Ethel Hartley (1899) |
| OtherInfo | Expert on water supply and public health |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 335-344, plate, by Mervyn Henry Gordon |
| Code | NA1428 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/35/271 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Alexander Houston, 19 Fairhazel Gardens, South Hampstead | 8 May 1907 |
| NLB/35/269 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir Eldon Gorst | 7 May 1907 |
| NLB/52/437 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Henry Power, FRS | 8 December 1915 |
| NLB/52/508 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Henry Power, FRS | 4 January 1915 |
| EC/1931/09 | Houston, Sir Alexander Cruikshank: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |