John Ingram Edgar, veterinary surgeon, qualified (MRCVS) in Edinburgh in December 1895 and came to South Africa as an officer in the Army Veterinary Division of the British forces during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). After the cessation of hostilities he joined the Veterinary Division of the Transvaal Department of Agriculture in November 1902, where he served until his retirement in May 1928. He obtained a Diploma in State Veterinary Medicine in 1921. For some time he was stationed at Pietersburg and was mainly responsible for the eradication of East Coast Fever in the Northern Transvaal. He published a short review of animal diseases in the Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa in 1911.

In December 1911 in Cape Town Edgar married Jessie Wallace Laing.

List of sources:

Edgar, J.I. Farm animals in Health and Sickness. Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa, 1911, Vol. 1, pp. 382-402.

FamilySearch: John Ingram Edgar. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BP-CQCL-V?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:8W7H-T9ZM&action=view

Posthumus, P.J. Past veterinarians in South Africa (10th edition), Vol. 2, c.1992.

Compiled by: D.W. Verwoerd

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