George Keppie Paterson

George Keppie Paterson graduated with honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1882. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in the same year and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1895. He remained active in the Society and served as Vice-President from 1913 to 1914. He worked for the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and for fifty years acted as Consulting Obstetrician at the Livingstone Dispensary in the Cowgate. In 1916 he registered with the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee. Later in life he served as Conductor of the Edinburgh Medical Mission Choir and Orchestra, which performed at the British Medical Association Hall in Edinburgh in 1932. He died in 1942.