William Burney Bannerman

Major General William Burney Bannerman CSI FRSE (6 July 1858 – 3 February 1924) was a 19th and 20th century high-ranking Scottish military surgeon who worked in the Indian Medical Service.

He was one of the first to use Henry Littlejohn's analytical techniques on a large scale, demonstrating the value of inoculation.

Joining the British Army as part of the Indian Medical Service he served as a surgeon from 1883.

[2] He received his doctorate (MD) entitled 'On the nature of malaria and its prophylaxsis' in 1889 and returned to India in November 1889.

Returning to India in 1896 early in 1898 he undertook along with Waldemar Haffkine, what would now be a highly controversial experiment in the village of Undhera, Vadodara District, where there was a plague outbreak.

[5] He remained in Madras for the duration of the First World War but lost most of his senior and experienced officers who were sent on medical duties elsewhere.

[2] He retired to Edinburgh in 1918 and spent much time linked to the United Free Church of Scotland where he was an elder and Secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee.