David Waters Sutherland

David Waters Sutherland CIE FRSE (18 December 1872 – 19 April 1939) was an Australian physician who ran the King Edward Medical College in Lahore and married Princess Bamba Singh.

Biography

He was born in Buninyong on 18 December 1872, the son of Wilhelmina Waters and her husband, John Sutherland of Allendale, Victoria. He was educated at Creswick Grammar School, then Melbourne University.

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, graduating with an MB ChB in 1893, then took the exams for the Indian Medical Service. He subsequently qualified for the post-graduate Doctor of Medicine (MD). He was also a member of the (English) Royal College of Physicians (MRCP).

Originally attached to the Indian Army as part of the Indian Medical Service he went to Bengal as a Surgeon Lieutenant in 1894. He served in the Chitral Campaign of 1895. He later served in engagements at both Malakand and Panjkora. He was promoted to Major in 1905 and in 1919 was Consulting Physician to the Afghanistan Field Force. He reached the rank of Lt Colonel. and been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh the following year. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Alexander Bruce and John Chiene.

In 1917, he was created a Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) by King George V.

Sutherland retired in 1926 and returned to Scotland soon after. It is unclear if his wife, Princess Bamba, went with him. He died at "Braeside" at Belhaven on the outskirts of Dunbar in Scotland on 19 April 1939.

Publications

Differential Diagnosis of Fevers (1909)