Albert John Chalmers

Albert John Chalmers (28 March 1870 - 5 April 1920) was a British colonial physician who was a research pioneer in tropical medicine.

He was the acting principal medical officer in the colony during the Siege of Kumassi in 1900 when he was mentioned in despatches and subsequently received the Ashanti Medal and clasp for his service.

[1] He left for Ceylon in 1901 where he worked for the next ten years as the registrar and lecturer on pathology at the Colombo Medical College.

After serving with the Pellagra Field Commission in 1913 he was appointed as the Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum.

In February 1920, Chalmers turned in his resignation to the Sudan Government and left to travel the world with his wife Alice.