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John McGibbon

Fellow

John McGibbon was born in Edinburgh in 1876. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1898 and served as House Surgeon at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1912. He became Chair of Obstetrics at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922 and later Chair of Midwifery at the University of St Andrews and Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Dundee Royal Infirmary. He was a founding Fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. He died in Crieff in 1949.