Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick HarveyCIEFRCPEFRSE (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in India.
Life
Harvey, the son of Robert Harvey, attended Dollar Academy then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1893 and MB in 1897.
In the First World War he was initially based in Bombay, on training duties, then served with the Sanitary Division of the ADMS in Mesopotamia and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He was the joint creator, with Robert J. Blackham, of the "Harvey-Blackham" pattern used on St John’s Ambulances in the Far East.
Returning again to India he served as Director of the Central Research Institute of India. He was awarded the Order of the Indian Empire in 1921. He retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1925 and returned to Scotland to live in Edinburgh. [2]