John Francis Sutherland

Dr John Francis Sutherland FRSE FRSS (1854–1912) was a Scottish physician, linked to senior civil service medical roles.

He then became Resident Medical Officer in the British Hospital in Paris, working with Sir John Rose Cormack, Edward Neech and Alan Herbert.

[1] In 1880 he gained his doctorate (MD) and entered a new role as Medical Officer to HM Prisons, living at 19 Roslea Drive in the Dennistoun district of Glasgow,[2] which was then a newly built tenemental flat.

[5] He died at 15 Rutland Square in Edinburgh's West End,[6] his home for his final years, in January 1912 aged 57.

[10] Halliday Sutherland's best-selling autobiography "The Arches of the Years" included recollections of his father in chapters entitled "The Terror of the Glen"[11] and "Death on the Moors".