Smith, Sydney, Sir, 1883-1969

LC control no.	no 92008963
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Smith, Sydney, Sir, 1883-1969 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	N.Z. Great Britain Egypt
Associated place	Cairo, Egypt
Located	Edinburgh, Scotland
Birth date	18830804
Death date	19690508
Place of birth	Roxburgh, N.Z.
Place of death	Edinburgh, Scotland
Field of activity	Forensic pathology Medical jurisprudence
Affiliation	School of Medicine (Cairo, Egypt) World Health Organization British Association in Forensic Medicine University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine
Profession or occupation	Forensic pathologists College teachers
Found in	His Forensic medicine, 1943: t.p. (Sydney Smith, M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Edin.), D.P.H., Regis Prof. of forensic medicine) Concise DNB (Smith, Sir Sydney Alfred (1883-1969); b. in New Zealand) Medical detectives, 2013: page 5 (Sir Sydney Smith) page 63, etc. (pioneering forensic ballistics expert; awarded the Order of the Nile by the Egyptian Government when he left to take up the Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine at Edinburgh in 1928; advised on the setting up of the laboratory at Hendon Police College, where he was a regular lecturer; in the late 1930s he was appointed as adviser to the World Health Organisation; after the war he took part in a commission to assess the medical aspects of German war crimes; he was the first President of the British Association in Forensic Medicine; lived in Edinburgh) Wikipedia, viewed July 24, 2013 (Sydney Smith (forensic expert); Sir Sydney Alfred Smith CBE; b. August 4, 1883, in Roxburgh, New Zealand; d. May 8, 1969, in Edinburgh; renowned forensic scientist and pathologist; from 1928-1953 he was Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1931-1953, as well as Rector of the University 1954-1957; educated at Victoria College, Wellington before winning a scholarship at Edinburgh University in botany and zoology; following a short period in general practice, he became an assistant in the Edinburgh department of forensic medicine; he returned to New Zealand in 1914 as Medical Officer of Health for Otago, then served in World War I; in 1917 he took up a post as medico-legal advisor to the Government of Egypt and senior lecturer in forensic medicine at the School of Medicine in Cairo; CBE in 1944 and Knight Bachelor in 1949)
Associated language	eng