George Freeland Barbour Simpson

George Freeland Barbour Simpson FRSE FRCPE FRCSE JP (21 September 1874 – 8 April 1958) was a 20th-century Scottish physician and gynaecologist.

[1] He was educated at George Watson's College (1884-1892), and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1898[2] and gaining his MD in 1905.

[3] He followed in his father's shoes as head Physician of the Simpson Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh (named after his great uncle).

His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Alexander Crum Brown, James Cossar Ewart and Cargill Gilston Knott.

[citation needed] His brother was the scientist James Young Simpson, and his cousin the politician George Freeland Barbour.