Robert Baird McClure

Robert Baird McClure

Robert Baird McClure CC (1900 – November 10, 1991) was a Canadian physician, medical missionary, and the 23rd Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1968 to 1971.

Born in Portland, Oregon, the son of a medical missionary, he spent the first fifteen years of his life in China.

He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1922. In 1923, he was appointed a medical missionary to Henan, China and served until 1948. He was the only medical missionary in India and China who was able to provide radium treatment for cancer. He was also on the staff of the Church Missionary Society Hospital at Gaza, Palestine.

In 1971, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

References

*Munroe Scott, "McClure: The China Years"; "McClure: Years of Challenge" (biography of Dr. Robert McClure, vols. 1 and 2), Penguin Books Canada, Toronto 1979 and 1985.


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