Ernest william gurney masterman, british physician and scholar in the holy land

Ernest William Gurney Masterman (1867–1943) held a variety of positions in Jerusalem for almost forty-five years, mainly as a physician of the English Mission Hospital for the Jews and Head of the Palestine Exploration Fund in the Holy Land. As a vigorous and talented scholar he conducted researches into the diverse disciplines of medical studies, history and archaeology, geography and botany, demography and social anthropology, hydrology and epigraphy. Among his special achievements were his research of the disease of malaria and his scheduled measurement of the level of the Dead Sea. Masterman summarized the fruits of his researches in several monographs and dozens of articles.