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Geddes (SIR AUCKLAND CAMP- BELL)

SIR AUCKLAND CAMP- BELL, a British statesman. He was born in 1879 and received his preliminary education at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, London Hospital, and Freiburg, and after graduating became demonstrator and assistant professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University. Later he was professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and also at McGill University, Canada.

He served in the war against the Boer republic and also in the World War, 1914-16. During 1916-17 he was Director of Recruiting in the War Office, and in 1917, 1918, and 1919 was Minister of National Service, becoming also, in 1917, Unionist member in Parliament for the Basingstoke and Andover division of Hampshire. He was knighted in 1917, became President of the Local Government Board in 1918, and President of the GEELONG Board of Trade and Minister of Reconstruction in 1919. In the beginning of 1920 he became British Ambassador in Washington.