1. Surgeon General George Bidie CIE was a British physician who worked in India in the Madras Medical Service.
20 Facts About George Bidie
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George Bidie was Superintendent of the Government Museum, Chennai from 1872 to 1885.
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George Bidie studied at Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen and received an MD degree from Marischal College.
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George Bidie joined the Madras Medical Service in 1856 and served with the Hyderabad contingent during the 1857 rebellion and received a medal.
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George Bidie was a Civil Surgeon at Guntur during 1859 and between 1867 and 1868, served on special duty in Mysore and Coorg to investigate the stem borer and its damage to coffee.
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George Bidie was a Professor of Botany at the Madras Medical College and a Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum between 1866 and 1870.
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George Bidie helped introduce humane practises for the treatment of the insane as well as medical inspections in schools.
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George Bidie rose through the ranks becoming Surgeon, Surgeon-Major, Brigade Surgeon, Deputy Surgeon-General and Surgeon-General.
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George Bidie worked as Superintendent of the Madras Museum from 1872 to 1884 as well as serving on the Cinchona Commission in 1873.
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George Bidie became a Fellow of Madras University in 1879.
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George Bidie worked on sanitation, becoming Sanitary Commissioner of the Madras Presidency and was a delegate in the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography in 1891.
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George Bidie attempted to introduce cocoa cultivation in southern India, growing them experimental at the museum.
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George Bidie considered Casuarina equisetifolia as a plant suitable for "reclamation" of sandy soils.
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George Bidie was a friend of Richard Henry Beddome and had the museum acquire his herbarium collections for Rs.
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In 1876 George Bidie was appointed to the newly established executive committee of management of the Madras School of Arts.
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George Bidie was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1890.
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George Bidie was instrumental in setting up laws for the protection of wild birds in India.
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George Bidie was a life member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and published a leaflet on The Protection of Wild Birds in India.
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George Bidie is buried in the cemetery of Logie Kirk.
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George Bidie married Isabella, daughter of Alexander Wiseman of Banchory, Aberdeenshire on 11 July 1854.