William Stewart ALEXANDER  CBE   
MB ChB (NZ), MD (NZ), Am Bd Cert Anatomical Path, MRCPath, FRCPA
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Born Invercargill 25/5/1919     Died Auckland February 2013

Educated at Auckland Grammar School

MB ChB (NZ) 1942, MD (NZ) 1950, Am Bd Cert Anatomical Path 1950, MRCPath 1962, FRCPA 1963

Demonstrator in Anatomy, Otago Medical School 1943
Demonstrator, Pathology Department, Otago Medical School 1944

Assistant Pathologist, Wellington Hospital 1945
Junior Lecturer in Pathology, Otago Medical School 1946 - 1947
Postgraduate student, Banting Institute, Toronto (Professor E Linnell) 1947 - 1948
Rockefeller grant allowed him to visit various neuropathologists during 1948 - 1949, and for a while he worked with Professor Dorothy Russell at the London Hospital

Lecturer in Pathology, Otago Medical School 1949
Pathologist, Grey Nuns' Hospital, Regina, Saskatechewan, Canada 1950 - 1954

Private pathology practice based in Lower Hutt 1955 - 1991
Visiting Pathologist (neuropathology), Wellington Hospital 1977 - 1987
Clinical Lecturer, Wellington School of Medicine 1977 - 1983
Clinical Reader, Wellington School of Medicine 1984 - 1987

Member of the Medical Council 1982 - 1992, and he was its Chairman 1983 - 1991

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photograph courtesy
Stewart Alexander