page_title: George Freeland Barbour Simpson
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: George Freeland Barbour Simpson / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Dr George Freeland Barbour Simpson FRSE FRCPE FRCSE JP was a 20th-century Scottish physician and gynaecologist. In 1913 he served as President of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh.
context_section_description: He was born on 21 September 1874 at 52 Queen Street in Edinburgh the son of Margaret Stewart Barbour, sister of Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour, and her husband Alexander Russell Simpson. The house where they lived had been inherited on the death of his great uncle, James Young Simpson.
  He was educated at George Watson's College (1884-1892), and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1898.
  He followed in his father's shoes as head Physician of the Simpson Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh (named after his great uncle). He also lectured in gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh.
  In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Alexander Crum Brown, James Cossar Ewart and Cargill Gilston Knott.
  In World War I he served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
  He died at home, 5 Randolph Cliff in Edinburgh on 8 April 1958. He is buried with his parents in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.
caption: 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh
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