Edward Provan Cathcart

Edward Provan Cathcart CBE FRS FRSE (18 July 1877 – 18 February 1954) was a Scottish physician and physiologist of international fame.

The Cathcart Committee (named after him) was critical to the Scottish input to the foundation of the National Health Service after World War II.

[2] He was born in Ayr on 18 July 1877, the son of Margaret Miller, from a family of rivet and bolt manufacturers, and Edward Moore Cathcart, a merchant in the town.

He rose to the level of Lt Col Director on the General Staff (Army Medical Services).

[6] In 1913 he married Gertrude Dorman Bostock, a fellow physiology student, and only the third female science graduate in the history of the University of Glasgow.