John Moir

Dr. John Innes Allan Moir FRSE (6 April 1808 – 14 May 1899) was a 19th-century Scottish physician and obstetrician who held multiple senior positions within the Scottish medical world. Early life Moir was born with the grounds of the military prison at Verdun in France on 6 April 1808 the son of Margaret Laing Stenhouse and Dr James Moir (b.1780), a naval surgeon in the Royal Navy, who was captured by the French when his ship sank in the Channel around 1806. While in prison Moir was allowed to be joined by his wife, hence his birth occurring in prison. Among his younger brothers was James Moir, a merchant who moved to America in 1836. From around 1815 (after the end of the wars), he lived with his family at 21 Blair Street in Edinburgh's Old Town. Education and career He attended the High School in Edinburgh, at that time only a short distance from his home. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1828.