| Description | John Morris Loughran was born in Port Glasgow in 1923. He attended George Watson’s college, leaving in 1940, and graduated MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1946. He was in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1947 to 1950, with his final rank being major. He trained in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Following this, he worked at Gogarburn hospital in Edinburgh, St George’s hospital in Morpeth and the State Hospital at Carstairs where he was a consultant psychiatrist from 1965 to 1967. From 1967 to 1985 he was one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners with the Mental Welfare Commission. Early in his career he had and recovered from tuberculosis. He married Moyra in 1947, and had a daughter, Verne. He died in 1988.
Contents: School and medical school certificates, correspondence, diploma in psychological medicine, fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. |