John William McNee

He was born on 17 December 1887 in Mount Vernon in north Lanarkshire (now part of Glasgow the only son of John McNee.

In 1911 he was awarded a McCunn Scholarship and with a further Carnegie Research Fellowship in 1912 he travelled to Freiburg University in Germany to do postgraduate studies.

In 1924 he obtained a Rockefeller Scholarship and went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, as an Assistant Professor studying coronary artery thrombosis, becoming an expert in this field.

On his return to Britain he was offered the Chair in Practical Medicine at his alma mater of Glasgow University and accepted this.

In the Second World War he held the unique title of Surgeon Rear Admiral to the Royal Navy for Scotland and he Western Approaches.