William Ramsay Smith FRSE (27 November 1859 – 28 September 1937) was a Scottish physician, educator, naturalist, anthropologist and civil servant, who worked in South Australia after moving there at the age of about 37 in 1896. He was initially appointed as a pathologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and was later appointed to other roles, including that of city coroner in Adelaide, but his career was marred by allegations of misuse of human remains. He made a study of Aboriginal Australians, and sent body parts to Edinburgh University's anthropological collection. He published a number of books and articles in scientific journals, and in 1930 published a work which under his own name which had been written by Ngarrindjeri author David Unaipon.
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27 November 1859 King Edward, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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28 September 1937 (aged 77)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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