John Bernard Gilpin

Dr. John Bernard Gilpin (4 September 181012 March 1892) was an American-born Canadian physician, surgeon, naturalist, author, and artist.

Early life and education John Bernard Gilpin Jr. was born in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, on 4 September 1810.

Career Dr. Gilpin was recorded as a medical practitioner in Annapolis County, where he also studied natural history and local wildlife. He had the privilege of delivering the first paper, "The Common Herring of Nova Scotia," at the institute's first ordinary meeting at Dalhousie College on 19 January 1863. He was appointed as vice president of the institute on 12 October 1864.

Over two decades, he wrote 34 papers published in the institute's transactions, many including his own illustrations. Regularly called upon by Dr. Spencer Fullerton Baird, curator of the Smithsonian Institution, he helped classify fish species and understand their migrations. His father's branch of the family came from England to America in 1783, settling in Pennsylvania before moving to Newport in 1803. He had a sister named Elizabeth Miller Gilpin.

His son, Edwin Gilpin, became the Dean of Nova Scotia in 1899.

Death John Bernard Gilpin died at 81 years old on 12 March 1892 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.