Person:John Cowan (128)

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow have photos, family trees etc. relating to John. The Cowans were a distinguished medical family with connections with the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons stretching back to Patrick Marshall, surgeon of Kilsyth, (1631-1697). This collection relates mainly to John Marshall Cowan MD DSc LLD (1870-1947), the son of Dr J B Cowan, Regius Professor of Materia Medica, University of Glasgow, and grandson of Robert Cowan, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, University of Glasgow. After graduating BA from Cambridge University in 1891 and qualifying as Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB, BCh) in 1895, John Marshall Cowan held resident appointments in the Western Infirmary, The Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the City of Glasgow Fever Hospitals. In 1900 he saw active service in the Boer War as a physician to the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital. In 1902 he took his MD and two years later DSc. On his return to Glasgow he settled in consulting practice and was appointed to the junior staff of the Western Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. At the same time he became attached to the University Pathological Department under Sir Robert Muir. In 1906 he was appointed Physician to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and shortly afterwards Professor of Medicine in Anderson’s College. In the First World War, he served as a Consulting Physician to the Forces in Egypt and Palestine. In 1925 he was appointed Physician to the King in Scotland. He is chiefly remembered for his work on cardiology.

John Marshall COWAN was born 22may1870 in Row, Dunbartonshire. His mother was Anne Black Bolling Buchanan ALSTON. John married 1898 Maude HAMILTON, daughter of George W. HAMILTON. John died in 1947 (scotlandspeople). John Cowan married Maud Hamilton in 1898 (scotlandspeople).In 1881 Jas W. Cowan (b. 1869 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire) and John M. Cowan (b. 1870 Shandon, Dunbartonshire) were pupils at St. Ninians (School), Old Well Rd., Moffat, Dumfriesshire (census). In 1891 John M. Cowan (b. 1871 Dunbartons) was at Cambridgeshire (census); he studied at Cambridge (ancestry.com). In 1901 John M. Cowan (b. 1871) and Maud M. Cowan (b. 1872) were at Lanarkshire (census).

1. ↑ National Records of Scotland. Scotlandspeople.
2. ↑ The Times. (London, England).
3.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
   Batch #: C115033, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 6035516 REGISTER, Printout Call #: NONE, Date.
4.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
5.   Information from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow..
6.   England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.).
7.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).