George Douglas Gray | |
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![]() Gray (centre) and the staff of the British Charitable Hospital in Peking. | |
Born | 1872 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | 12 September 1946 | (aged 73–74)
Education | University of Edinburgh |
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Profession | Physician |
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Lt. Col. George Douglas Gray CBE (1872 – 12 September 1946) was a Scottish physician who served in the British Army in what is now Malawi and later in what is now Kenya and then as the medical officer to the British ambassador in Peking (now Beijing), China, where he was also the medical superintendent to the British Charitable Hospital there. He assisted in combatting the plague epidemic of 1910–1911 for which he received the thanks of the Chinese government. He was subsequently the British delegate to the International Plague Conference held in Mukden in 1911.
During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as commanding officer of the hospitals for the Chinese Labour Corps at Noyelles-sur-Mer. In retirement, he wrote a book extolling the benefits of the soya bean which was influenced by his experiences in China.