Harold Gilbee Anderson

Harold Gilbee Anderson (1896–1977) was an English medical missionary who worked in western China. Anderson served as Medical Superintendent to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) from 1948-1959. His mother died of Blackwater fever in Haifa in 1898. Between 1907 and 1915, he attended Monkton Combe School, where he first heard the call to missionary service.

In 1925, after his war service in France, he entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital where he received his Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (MRCP), M.B, B.S. from London and held the post of Senior house physician. He was accepted by CMS and sailed to China for his missionary trip, where he later obtained his medical degree in 1934.

The hospital that Anderson was working in, was supposed to accommodate one hundred and ten patients; on one day they had seven hundred patients.

In 1931 he was awarded a Research Fellowship at Lester Institute, Shanghai. The Medical Commission's report of 1939 is a landmark in the history of CMS medical missions, and Anderson's passion was translating its recommendations from paper to practice.