GIBSON, John Lockhart
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1 |
| Born: | Ipswich, Qld., 17 July 1860 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Ipswich Grammar School; University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation: | Honorary Surgeon, Brisbane for Children and also Benevolent Asylum |
| Died: | Brisbane, Qld., 30 September 1944, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Columbarium 4 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1915: | Involvement Major, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 1915: | Embarked Major, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, RMS Mooltan, Sydney |
Help us honour John Lockhart Gibson's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Death of Dr J. Lockhart Gibson
Dr John Lockhart Gibson, M.D., CM. Edinburgh, MRCS, England,
FRACS, who had a most distinguished medical career and who was one of tho oldest and best known members of the profession in Brisbane, died at his home at Chiefswood, Toowong this morning after a long Illness.
The late Dr Gibson, who was the son of Mr James Gibson, manager
of the Bank of New South Wales at Ipswich for many years, was born at Ipswich in 1860. He was educated at the Ipswich Grammar School and at Edinburgh Collegiate School, Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine and surgery with first-class honours in 1881. He also studied at special hospitals at Edinburgh, Vienna,
Berlin, and London.
Returning to Queensland Dr Gibson commenced practice in Brisbane
and specialised in ophthalmology,
continuing that practice with a break caused by war until comparatively recently. During the last war he was ophthalmologist of the 3rd Australian Garrison Hospitals at Lemnos and Abbassia.
He took a great interest in matters affecting his profession and public health, particularly in regard to lead poisoning and its relation to infantile paralysis. He was for a term president of the Queensland branch of the British Medical Association.
He was president of the ophthalmological section of the Australasian
Medical Congress which met in Melbourne in 1908, and he was a vice-president of the ophthalmological section of the BMA congress which met there in 1935.
Dr Gibson was honorary consulting ophthalmologist to the Children's
Hospital, ophthalmologist to the Queensland branch nf the. Repatriation Department; chairman of the scientific and medical advisory committee of the Queensland Cancer Trust. He also took an active interest in educational matters and was until recently a member of the University Senate. He was a found ation member of the council of Emmanuel College, and was chairman for years. He also was for a long period a member of the trustees of the Brisbane Grammar Schools, of which body he was chairman for years.
He wrote many scientific papers and treatises.
In 1888 he married Miss Mary Florence Burkett, by whom he is
survived. He also leaves two sons —Dr Walter Gibson. Erisbane, and
Mr A. D. Gibson, Hartree, Longreach— and a daughter— Mrs Alpin
Cameron, Sydney.
The Telegraph Saturday 30 September 1944 page 2
Click images to start slideshow.