John Cowan (steel merchant)

Sir John Cowan LLD DL (12 December 1844–7 February 1929) was a 19th/20th century Scottish iron and steel merchant.

In 1860 he was apprenticed to the firm of Redpath Brown & Co, iron and steel merchants, of 33 Candlemaker Row and 137 Constitution Street in Leith.

[3] He died at home 6 Salisbury Road on 7 February 1929, and is buried in the Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.

Their son, William Morrison Cowan (1895–1919) died as results of wounds received in the First World War while serving in the Royal Flying Corps.

In 1934 she became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Mukden Medical College, the first Scottish female to gain a professorship.