{{Short description|British veterinarian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} Sir '''Stewart Stockman''' MRCVS (1869–1926) was a 19th/20th century British veterinarian who served as Chief Veterinary Officer to the Ministry of Agriculture<ref>{{cite journal |title=Stewart Stockman. 1869-1926 |journal=The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology |date=1926 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=528–532 |doi=10.1002/path.1700290418 }}</ref> and as President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for the year 1923/24 and President of the National Veterinary Association. He was an expert on foot and mouth disease.
==Life== He was born on 27 September 1869 in Wellington Street in Leith (the harbour area of Edinburgh) the fourth son of William John Stockman (d. 1908), a flour importer, and his wife.<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1869</ref> He was younger brother to Ralph Stockman. The family moved to a larger house at 2 Bonnington Place in 1870.<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1870</ref>
He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh then studied Veterinary Science at the Royal Veterinary College on Clyde Street in Edinburgh under Prof Thomas Walley. He did postgraduate studies in animal pathology in both Paris and Brussels and returned to Edinburgh in 1892 as Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at his alma mater.<ref name=PMC5320342>{{cite journal |title=Sir Stewart Stockman |journal=Edinburgh Medical Journal |date=1926 |volume=33 |issue=8 |pages=521–522 |pmc=5320342 |bibcode=1926Natur.117..864. |doi=10.1038/117864a0 }}</ref>
After seven years at the college he left Scotland in 1899 to serve in the Second Boer War<ref>BMJ obituary July 1926{{full citation needed|date=March 2020}}</ref> At the end of the war in 1902 he went to work in India then moved in 1903 to work as Chief Veterinary Officer to the Transvaal, concentrating on diseases of cattle and tropical diseases in general. In 1905 he obtained the highly prestigious position as Chief Veterinary Officer to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. He was Director of their research laboratory at Weybridge. His main claim to fame during his term of office was in the elimination of glanders from Great Britain and in the creation of the Tuberculosis Order of 1925 which eliminated the risk of tuberculosis in cattle spreading to humans through the consumption of milk.<ref name=PMC5320342/>
He was knighted on 1 January 1913 by King George V for veterinary services to the United Kingdom.<ref>New Years Honours List 1913</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28690|page=1147|date=14 February 1913}}</ref> From this time he was working under Sir Sydney Olivier and Sir Thomas Elliott at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.<ref>Experiment Station Record vol 28 Dept of Agriculture and Fisheries</ref>
He died at 16 Newton Terrace in Glasgow, the home of his brother Ralph, on 2 June 1926.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sir Stewart Stockman |journal=Nature |date=June 1926 |volume=117 |issue=2955 |pages=864–866 |doi=10.1038/117864a0 |bibcode=1926Natur.117..864. |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>The Times (obituaries) 4 June 1926</ref>
==Family== In 1908 he married Ethel McFadyean, daughter of his colleague, Sir John McFadyean FRSE. They had two daughters.<ref>The County Families of the United Kingdom: Edward Walford</ref>
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