Thom's Irish Who's Who/O'Sullivan-Beare, Daniel Robert

O'SULLIVAN-BEARE, Daniel Robert (The O'Sullivan-Beare), B.A., M.B. (T.C.D.) Educ.: French schools; Dublin University (T.C.D.): First Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist in Natural Science; attached to Army Medical Department during Egyptian Campaign, 1885; Medical Officer in the Gold Coast Colony 1893; acting Medical Officer to Agency at Zanzibar, 1893-94; Vice-Consul for the Island of Pemba, East Africa, 1894; was engaged during several years in suppressing the slave trade; received personal rank of Consul, as reward for services in that connection, 1906; while in Africa brought to the notice of the medical profession a native remedy for cure of Blackwater Fever, which has since proved to be a specific for the disease; Consul at Bahia, Brazil, 1907; acting Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, 1907-8; transferred, as Consul, to San Paulo, Brazil, 1907; Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, 1913-15, and again from 1919; seconded by Foreign Office for military service and gazetted Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C, Nov., 1915; served throughout the European War, 1914-19; has received the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar. Recns.: riding, tennis; only son of the late The O'Sullivan-Beare; b. 1865. Res.: Rio de Janeiro. Club: Royal Thames Yacht.