John Preston Maxwell
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'''John Preston Maxwell''' ([[5 December]] [[1871]] – [[25 July]] [[1961]]), son of [[James Laidlaw Maxwell]], was a [[Presbyterian]] obstetric missionary to [[China]].
John Preston Maxwell was born on [[5 December 1871]] in [[Birmingham]], where his father Dr James Laidlaw Maxwell, practised medicine. He attended [[University College School]] and [[University College London]], before taking his clinical training at [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]], from which he emerged with a gold medal in obstetrics and went on to work as a resident at St Bartholomew's. Then, following his devout [[Presbyterian]] faith, Maxwell became a Medical [[missionary]] for the [[English Presbyterian Church]] and, in about [[1898]], went to Fujian in [[China]], where he spent the majority of his professional life. He worked at [[Yungchun Hospital]], [[Fujian]], from [[1899]] to [[1919]], and Changpoo, [[Xiamen|Amoy]].
He specialised in [[obstetrics]] and was a leading authority on foetal [[osteomalacia]]. He became a Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Union Medical College in [[Beijing]] (a teaching hospital funded by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]), President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and worked as secretary to the medical committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Relief of Distress in China. He was awarded the Army and Navy Medal by the [[Chinese Republic]] and was made a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists]] in [[1929]]. Maxwell returned to England at some point after [[1935]] (possibly as a result of the invasion of [[Beijing]] by the [[Japan]]ese in [[1937]]) and lived at [[Brinkley, Cambridgeshire]]. He was elected consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the nearby [[Newmarket General Hospital]]. He married Edith Lilly Isaacson in [[1899]] (who, as a proficient artist, illustrated some of her husband's research papers) and they had one daughter, Marjorie Gordon Maxwell (later Steen), born in [[1908]]. John Maxwell died suddenly near his home on [[25 July 1961]], at the age of 89, his wife having predeceased him on [[14 October]] [[1954]].
==External links==
*[http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/45/1154.htm entry of John Preston Maxwell at Mundus]
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P48128 entry of John Preston Maxwell at the National Register of Archives]
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[[Category:English Christian missionaries]]
[[Category:English Presbyterians]]
[[Category:Presbyterian missionaries]]
[[Category:Christian missionaries in China]]
[[Category:Old Gowers]]
[[Category:Alumni of University College London]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital]]