Ernest Muir, M.D., F.R.C.S., C.I.E., C.M.C., K.I.H. (Scotland 1880). The doyen of British leprologists who began his work as a medical missionary in Bengal in 1908. In 1920 he began work in Calcutta and was closely associated with BELRA after its inauguration in 1924. Became medical secretary of BELRA and traveled widely in the interest of leprosy. Awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal and bar, ...