George Frederick Stooke (March 1867 – 12 September 1907) was an English physician and medical missionary who carried out his work with the Church of Scotland's Mission in Yichang, China, along the Yangtze river.
Stooke was able to use his high degree of skill and knowledge to greatly increase the scope of the surgical department at the hospital in Yichang.
[4] The Church needed another doctor to volunteer to offer their service at the Mission and George Stooke quickly stepped forward.
He wrote a short entry for the East of Asia Magazine entitled, “A Trip in Summer through the Yangtze Gorges” where he describes his travels from Shanghai to Yichang and includes several images of the landscapes he encountered.
The expertise of Stooke and his colleagues attracted people throughout the whole city and district and as a result the amount of work in the hospital was increasing.
The medical missionary body lost a brilliant member in China who had a large impact on the people there and on the workings of the hospital.