Edward Hart

Edward Watson Hart MBE, FRCP (1911 – 23 May 1986) was a Scottish consultant physician who specialised in pediatrics.

Education Edward Hart was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded first class honours in the natural sciences Tripos part 1.

Physician After qualification, Hart held house physician posts at the Middlesex Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street in London where he developed his interest in pediatrics. He joined the British Army Blood Transfusion Service commanded by Lionel Whitby and served in France, Northern Ireland and India.

In 1947, on his return to civilian life, Hart was appointed physician to the children's department at the Middlesex Hospital, where he worked single-handed for twenty years. He was also appointed paediatrician to Hampstead General Hospital in London. In 1949 Hart was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).

Hart served as honorary secretary to the British Paediatric Association from 1959 to 1968 and was made an honorary member in 1974.