Major-General John Simson Stuart Martin CSI (18 June 1888 – 24 December 1973) was a Scottish doctor in the Indian Medical Service.
Born in Stornoway, he was educated at Oban High School, Rockhampton Grammar School (Queensland) and the University of Edinburgh.
He served in Mesopotamia from November 1914 until April 1916, when he was taken prisoner by the Turks at the fall of Kut.
By the time of the start of the Second World War, he was a Colonel, and was further promoted to substantive Major-General on 6 March 1943, retiring on 6 March 1945.
[5] His daughter Lorna is the wife of immunologist Avrion Mitchison.