Robert Campbell Begg (11 April 1886 – 26 July 1971) was a New Zealand medical doctor and politician. He was born in

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, New Zealand, on 11 April 1886. He first studied theology and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying MB ChB. After serving as a medical officer during

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, for which he was awarded the

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, he returned to Edinburgh, gaining an MD in 1923. He was the president of the

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from 1933 until its demise in 1934–35, and later moved to South Africa. In 1935, he was awarded the

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