Sir Ronald Ross, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1902

Ross, Sir Ronald (1857–1932), malariologist, was born on 13 May 1857 at the Himalayan hill station of Almora, North-Western Provinces, the eldest of ten children of General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross (1824–1892), then a captain in the 66th regiment of Gurkhas, and Matilda Charlotte (d. 1906), daughter of Edward Merrick Elderton, a London solicitor. The Ross family was Scottish, of clan Ross, but Ross's great-great-grandfather was a director of the East India Company, and his grandfather, father, and an uncle were soldiers in the Bengal army, so the Indian connections were long-standing. Nine of the ten Ross children survived into adulthood, three of Ross's brothers continuing the family military tradition, and two following him into medicine.

Ronald Ross awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering that mosquito carried Malaria disease. He then controlled the spread by covering wells and water holes with thin layer of oil to stop larvae from transforming into adult insects, thus breaking the cycle. Awarded a knighthood for this work while in British Army in India. Later awarded a second knighthood for further work of this kind

Marriages Jun 1889 BLOXAM Rosa Bessie Paddington 1a 9 Marriages Jun 1889 ROSS Ronald Paddington 1a 9

Deaths Sep 1932 Ross Ronald 75 Wandsworth 1d 506

IN 1901 CENSUS: Ronald Ross aged 43 born in India was in the Toxteth Park parish as a Prof Medical Science (Born 1956/7) so family is: Ronald Ross aged 43 born in India was in 1856/7 FATHER Rosie B Ross aged 37 born in London Kensington in 1864 - WIFE NAME IS ROSIE IN 1901 CENSUS BUT ROSA IN ENGLAND MARRIAGE RECORD Ronald C Ross aged 6 born Surrey Surbiton in 1895 SON BMD Register Births Mar 1895 Ross Ronald Campbell Kingston 2a 360 Sylvia Ross aged 8 born in India in 1893 DAUGHTER Dorothy Ross aged 9 born in India in 1892 DAUGHTER Charles Claye Ross aged 0 SON BMD Register Births Dec 1901 Ross Charles Claye Toxteth Park 8b 212

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