Alexander George Gibson
Alexander George Gibson was a British physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.Biography
Alexander Gibson graduated in 1895 from University College, Aberystwyth with BSc degree and then graduated in 1900 from Christ Church, Oxford with BA degree with first-class honours in natural science. After medical education at St Thomas’ Hospital, he graduated in 1904 BM. After briefly holding a house appointment at St Thomas' Hospital, he became at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary in 1904 a house physician and in 1911 an assistant pathologist. He qualified MRCP in 1905 and graduated DM in 1908. He was elected FRCP in 1913.
During WWI Gibson served as a major in the 3rd Southern General Hospital and upon demobilisation was appointed in 1919 a full physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. At the University of Oxford he was successively appointed demonstrator of pathology, lecturer on morbid anatomy, and reader in morbid anatomy.
Gibson chaired the meeting which formed the Cardiac Club on 22 April 1922. The Cardiac Club became in 1937 the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and is now known as the British Cardiovascular Society.
In 1921 at the London Hospital Medical College, Gibson delivered the Schorstein Lecture. Under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians, he gave in 1928 the Bradshaw Lecture on pyelitis and pyelonephritis.
For the Quarterly Journal of Medicine he was one of the editors from 1929 to 1937 and served as the secretary for the editorial board from 1907 to 1937. He was the co-author with William Tregonwell Collier of Methods of Clinical Diagnosis.
Gibson married Constance Muriel Jones. They had two sons and a daughter.
