Cuthbert Christy was an English medical doctor and zoologist who undertook extensive explorations of Central Africa during the first part of the 20th century.
18 Facts About Cuthbert Christy
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Cuthbert Christy was known for his work on sleeping sickness, and for the Christy Report on slavery in Liberia in the 1920s.
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Cuthbert Christy was born in 1863, son of Robert Christy of Chelmsford.
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Cuthbert Christy's younger sister, Eva Christy, was a riding instructor and writer.
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Cuthbert Christy was educated at Olivers Mount School, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, then won a Mackenzie bursary to the University of Edinburgh.
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Cuthbert Christy travelled widely in South America and the West Indies between 1892 and 1895.
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Cuthbert Christy was senior medical officer to the second battalion, West African Field Force in Northern Nigeria from 1898 to 1900.
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Cuthbert Christy was then appointed special medical officer for plague duty in Bombay, working in the Plague Laboratory in that city.
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Cuthbert Christy worked in Ceylon in 1906, in Uganda and East Africa from 1906 to 1909, and then in Nigeria, the Gold Coast and the Cameroons from 1909 to 1910.
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Between 1911 and 1914 Cuthbert Christy worked for the Belgian government in the Belgian Congo, mostly studying sleeping sickness.
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Cuthbert Christy observed that far more passports for cross-border travel were being issued by the Congolese authorities than by the Sudanese.
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Cuthbert Christy said that the main pretext was to hunt for a runaway woman, but the main reason was to trade in rubber.
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In 1916 Cuthbert Christy was appointed Advisor for Malaria to the East African Expeditionary Force.
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Cuthbert Christy was in charge of the military hospital in Dar es Salaam, and then in Mesopotamia.
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Between 1920 and 1923 Cuthbert Christy explored the Bahr el Ghazal in what is South Sudan.
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Cuthbert Christy was employed in French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa from 1928 to 1929.
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Some authors feel that Cuthbert Christy was generally negative towards the role of the United States in Liberia, and interested in showing that the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was complicit in slaving.
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Cuthbert Christy was conducting zoological investigation for the Belgian government, and was in search of elephants.