Walter R. Campbell

Walter Ruggles "Dynamite" Campbell (14 December 1890, Port Robinson, Ontario – 9 July 1981, Toronto) was a Canadian physician and diabetologist, known as the first physician "to administer insulin to a patient."

Biography Walter R. Campbell's father, Bruce M. Campbell, was born in 1861 and married Jane Mary "Jennie" Ekins in April 1889. Walter was their first-born child and spent his early childhood years on the family farm in Ontario. In the late 1890s, Bruce Campbell took his family, consisting of his wife, sons, Walter and Lancing (1893–1969), and daughter, Pearl (1895–1991), to California and joined Bruce's two older brothers in the construction business, but he died unexpectedly in 1906. The death of her husband led Jennie Campbell to return to Ontario to enable Walter to pursue higher education and eventually attend medical school in Toronto. He qualified F.R.C.P.C. in 1930 and was elected F.R.S.C. in 1933. His burial took place at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

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