Morley Sewell

Prof (Major) Morley Hodkin Sewell MRCVS (b.1932) is a living British veterinarian who served as Dean of the Dick Vet School in Edinburgh from 1994 to 1997. He was an expert on tropical diseases of animals.

Life

He was born in September 1932. He was educated at the King Edward VII School, Sheffield.[1]

He studied Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge University graduating BA MB around 1955. He was a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He then served as a Major in the Veterinary Service in Nigeria from June 1957.[2] During his service in Africa he became an expert on tropical medicine.

In 1994 he replaced Prof Richard Halliwell as Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Edinburgh University based at the Dick Vet School. He retired in 1997.

From 1998 to 2000 he is listed as a company director, living at 41 Craigiebield Crescent in Penicuik.[3]

In 2013 he wrote the obituary for his colleague Dr John Arthur Hammond.[4]

Artistic Recognition

Sewell was one of twenty "shadow portraits" created in the Summerhall building of the college, depicting former Principals. The portraits are now in the Easter Bush buildings.[5]

Family

Publications
  • Handbook on Animal Diseases in the Tropics

References
  1. Facebook: Morley Sewell
  2. https://archive.gazettes.africa/archive/ng/1961/ng-government-gazette-dated-1961-03-23-no-17.pdf
  3. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02917955/officers?page=2
  4. https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1573-7438_Tropical_Animal_Health_and_Production
  5. https://canmore.org.uk/site/74045/edinburgh-summerhall-royal-dick-veterinary-college
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