John Webb (paediatrician)

John Kingdon Guy Webb OBE (29 October 1918 – 17 August 2010) was an English paediatrician and first-class cricketer.

He was demobilised in 1948, returning to Oxford where he was children's registrar at Churchill Hospital until 1950, before moving to Newcastle to train in paediatrics under James Calvert Spence at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

[9] Webb's wider focus in child health saw him establish community field virus laboratories and engage teams to study issues among children around Vellore, such as malnutrition.

[2] He returned to Newcastle where he became the James Spence professor of child health, mentoring and encouraging community engagement by his students under his guidance.

[13] He was married to Alison Dora (née Reid), a medical graduate from St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1949, with his wife moving to India with him.

Four of their children followed their parents by becoming medical doctors, which included their son Jonathan, who also played rugby union for England.