Colonel Charles Donovan MD (1863–1951) was born in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen he was sent to Cork City to live with his grandfather to advance his secondary and university education. He studied at Queen's College, Cork (M.B.) and Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...

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Medical career

He did post graduate training in Dublin hospitals. He joined the Indian Medical Service and was stationed at Fort Dufferin, Mandalay. He later became a professor of Biology at Madras University. He discovered the cause of kala-azar

Visceral leishmaniasis

Visceral leishmaniasis , also known as kala-azar, black fever, and Dumdum fever, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Leishmania genus. This disease is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world , responsible for an...

, an infectious disease, a parasite which lives in the cells of the human body in 1903. The parasite was named Leishmania donovani in memory of him and another researcher working in the same medical area William Leishman. In 1905 he identified the micro-organism responsible for the disease granuloma inguinale. This also bears his name Donovania granulomatosis

Klebsiella granulomatis

Klebsiella granulomatis is Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria of the genus Klebsiella known to cause the sexually transmitted disease Donovanosis. It used to be called Calymmatobacterium granulomatis....

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Entomology

He took an interest in the study of butterflies and birds. After retirement he wrote a Catalogue of the Macrolepidoptera of Ireland (1936). Much of the field work for this was carried out in the area of Timoleague

Timoleague

Timoleague is a village in the eastern division of Carbery East in County Cork, Ireland, located along Ireland's southern coast near Courtmacsherry. It is about south of Bandon and from Cork on the R600 coastal road.-History:...

, Co. Cork when he was visiting his sisters there. He retired in 1920 to Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....