| Description | Sir Henry Sinderson was a British doctor who arrived in Iraq in 1918. He was the first Dean of the College of Medicine at Baghdad University, established in 1927, and physician to the Iraqi Royal Family. Because of this honour he was given the title Pasha. He also helped to establish the Royal College of Physicians in Iraq.
[Source: 'Strolling About on the Roof of the World - the first hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs' by Hugh Leach]
Contents: Tablet with cuneiform script from 1900 BC |