John Forfar

John Oldroyd Forfar, MC, FRSE (16 November 191614 August 2013) was a Scottish paediatrician and academic. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and later became a leading civilian paediatrician. He was Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1982. He was President of the British Paediatric Association from 1985 to 1988, and was instrumental in the founding of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Early life Forfar was born on 16 November 1916 in Glasgow, Scotland, to David Forfar and Elizabeth Campbell. His father was a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was educated at Perth Academy, a selective school in Perth. He studied medicine at the University of St Andrews. During his degree, he also studied for an intercalated Bachelor of Science (BSc). He briefly served with the 11th Field Ambulance,

He joined the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh in 1964 as a Consultant Paediatrician.

Personal life In 1942, he married Isobel Mary Langlands Fernback. The event meriting the award of a Military Cross occurred on 3 November 1944

In 2016 a luxury small scale holiday village was completed, right behind the dunes of Dishoek at the coast of Walcheren. The road that connects the villas is named "John O. Forfarstraat". The son of John Forfar, together with a number of veterans, was present at the ceremony to reveal the streetsign on 2 November 2015.

In 1975, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). He was the 1983 James Spence Medallist, the highest award of the British Paediatric Association. He received the Royal Marine Historical Society Award in 2005. A street in Port-en-Bessin is named Allée Professeur John Forfar in his honour in 2009.