Percy Samuel Lelean

Colonel Percy Samuel Lelean CB CMG FRSE FRCS (21 July 1871 – 6 November 1956) was a Canadian-born surgeon who specialised in issues of Public Health.

He studied medicine at Hart House in Canada then sent to UK to St Mary's Hospital, London.

[1] In the First Boer War, he volunteered for the Army Medical Services and saw action throughout South Africa, winning the Queen's Medal four times.

[1] He served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War.

[6] In 1944 he retired fully and was succeeded by Prof Francis Albert Eley Crew.