Smith, Sydney, Sir, 1883-1969

found: His Forensic medicine, 1943:t.p. (Sydney Smith, M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Edin.), D.P.H., Regis Prof. of forensic medicine)

found: Medical detectives, 2013:page 5 (Sir Sydney Smith) page 63, etc. (pioneering forensic ballistics expert; awarded the Order of the Nile by the Egyptian Government when he left to take up the Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine at Edinburgh in 1928; advised on the setting up of the laboratory at Hendon Police College, where he was a regular lecturer; in the late 1930s he was appointed as adviser to the World Health Organisation; after the war he took part in a commission to assess the medical aspects of German war crimes; he was the first President of the British Association in Forensic Medicine; lived in Edinburgh)

found: Wikipedia, viewed July 24, 2013(Sydney Smith (forensic expert); Sir Sydney Alfred Smith CBE; b. August 4, 1883, in Roxburgh, New Zealand; d. May 8, 1969, in Edinburgh; renowned forensic scientist and pathologist; from 1928-1953 he was Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1931-1953, as well as Rector of the University 1954-1957; educated at Victoria College, Wellington before winning a scholarship at Edinburgh University in botany and zoology; following a short period in general practice, he became an assistant in the Edinburgh department of forensic medicine; he returned to New Zealand in 1914 as Medical Officer of Health for Otago, then served in World War I; in 1917 he took up a post as medico-legal advisor to the Government of Egypt and senior lecturer in forensic medicine at the School of Medicine in Cairo; CBE in 1944 and Knight Bachelor in 1949)