George Beatson

Colonel Sir George Thomas Beatson KCB KBE DL (26 May 1848[1] – 16 February 1933)[2] was a British physician.

[4] His father was George Stewart Beatson, Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria and Surgeon General to the Indian Army.

[4] Beatson established an innovative domiciliary service, which supplied nursing care to patients in their own homes.

This detailed his pioneering treatment of three patients with advanced breast cancer through bilateral oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries).

[4] Beatson was also involved with the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, and he helped to establish the Scottish Red Cross.

[9] Raymond Poincaré, president of the French Republic, when in Glasgow in 1919 decorated him with the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honour.

He also received the decoration of Officer of the Crown of Belgium, and served as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.