Old Photograph Coronation Hall Pool Of Muckhart Scotland

Old photograph of the Coronation Hall in Pool Of Muckhart located three miles North East of Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Pool of Muckhart lies in the Strath of the River Devon, near the entrance to Glen Devon. Doctor George Alexander Gibson was born at Kelliebank in Muckhart on 27 January 1854, the son of George Gibson, a solicitor based in Alloa, and his wife Jane Rae Brown. He was educated at Dollar Academy. He then studied Law at both Glasgow University and Edinburgh University but instead chose to change his study to Medicine and graduated in 1874. He won the Falconer Memorial Fellowship. He then undertook postgraduate studies in London, England, Dublin, Ireland and Berlin, Germany before gaining his MD from Edinburgh University in 1881. After a very brief spell at Birmingham General Hospital he was appointed Senior Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Lauriston Place. He also worked at the New Town Dispensary and Deaconess Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Daniel John Cunningham, Sir Archibald Geikie and Sir Charles Wyville Thomson. In 1912 he spoke to the AGM of the British Medical Association on non valvular cardiac disease. In August 1912 he himself became a victim of cardiac disease, and his health broke. A cruise to Norway failed to revive his health. Despite complete rest his health went further into relapse at Christmas of 1912. He died at home, 3 Drumsheugh Gardens, in Edinburgh's fashionable West End on the morning of Saturday 18 January 1913 and is buried in Dean Cemetery in the west of the city. He was married to Lucy Jane Philips, born 1847, died 1948, who lived to the age of 101. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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