James Holmes Hutchison (born 16 April 1912 – died 27 December 1987) was a
Scottish paediatrician
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and
Samson Gemmell
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Life
Gemmell was born in Catrine in 1848 and was educated at Glasgow High School. He a ...
Professor of Child Heath at
Glasgow University
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from 1961 to 1977. From 1977 onwards he was Professor of Child Health at the
University of Hong Kong
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. Friends knew him as Jim Hutchison.
The book ''Hutchison's Paediatrics'' was named in his honour in 2012.
Life
Hutchison was born in
Rangoon
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the son of Alexander Hutchison and his wife Catherine Holmes. His family came to Scotland in 1920. He attended the High School in Glasgow then studied Medicine at
Glasgow University
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graduating MB ChB in 1934. Hutchison served his internship in the
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
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. Hutchison received his doctorate (MD) and the
Bellahouston Medal in 1939.
During the
Second World War
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, he attained the rank of
lieutenant colonel
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in the
Royal Army Medical Corps
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, with missions in France, Algeria, Italy and Austria. He was awarded an
Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
for his medical efforts in 1945.
Career
Hutchison returned to the Royal Hospital for Sick children in Glasgow after the war, also accepting the
Leonard Gow Lectureship in Medical Diseases of Childhood and Infancy. Hutchison specialised in
tuberculosis
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in childhood and worked on thyroid diseases with Prof
Ernie McGirr.
He was President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society 1958–59. In 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Thomas Symington,
Paul Bacsich,
Robert Campbell Garry
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, and
George Lightbody Montgomery
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. He was President of the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
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1966 to 1968. He was created a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire
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(CBE) in 1971.
Hutchison was also President of the
British Paediatric Association
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and of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. He was Chairman of the Scottish Health Services Council and of the
Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Family
He married Agnes T A Goodall (known as Ness) in 1940 shortly before his overseas posting in the war.
Publications
*''Practical Paediatric Problems'' (1964 plus later editions)
References
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1912 births
1987 deaths
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
British surgeons
British paediatricians
20th-century surgeons
20th-century non-fiction writers