James Holmes Hutchison (born 16 April 1912 – died 27 December 1987) was a Scottish

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and

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Professor of Child Heath at

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from 1961 to 1977. From 1977 onwards he was Professor of Child Health at the

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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

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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

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graduating MB ChB in 1934. Hutchison served his internship in the

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. Hutchison received his doctorate (MD) and the Bellahouston Medal in 1939. During the

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, he attained the rank of

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in the

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, with missions in France, Algeria, Italy and Austria. He was awarded an

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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

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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

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. His proposers were Thomas Symington, Paul Bacsich,

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, and

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. He was President of the

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1966 to 1968. He was created a Commander of the

(CBE) in 1971. Hutchison was also President of the

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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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