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THE death of Sir William T. Prout occurred on November 18, at his residence at the Manor House, Lingfield, Surrey. He was born in 1862, the son of Mr. William Prout of Mauritius, and was educated in the University of Edinburgh, graduating in medicine in 1884. He served as a medical officer in Mauritius until his transfer as an assistant Colonial surgeon under the Colonial Office in the Gold Coast in 1888, serving later in the Gambia until his promotion to the post of principal medical officer in Sierra Leone in 1895, where he was an official member of Legislative Council until his retirement in 1906.
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HORN, A. Sir William Prout, K.C.M.G., O.B.E.. Nature 144, 1004 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441004a0
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