Alexander George Gibson

Alexander George Gibson (21 September 1875 – 11 January 1950) was a British physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.

Biography Alexander Gibson graduated in 1895 from University College, Aberystwyth with a BSc, and then in 1900 from Christ Church, Oxford with a first-class BA honours degree in Natural Sciences. After completing his medical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, he took his BM in 1904. After briefly holding a house appointment at St Thomas' Hospital, in 1904 he became a house physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford; in 1911 he became an assistant pathologist.

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.

Gibson married Constance Muriel Jones. They had two sons and a daughter.