John Dudgeon

John Dudgeon was a Scottish physician who spent nearly forty years in China as a doctor, surgeon, translator and medical missionary. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, graduating M.D. and Master of Surgery at Glasgow in 1862. In 1863 he was appointed to the Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society at the hospital in Peking founded by William Lockhart, and he also served as Medical Attendant to the British Legation from 1864 to 1868. In the 1870s and 1880s he was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the Imperial College (Tongwen guan). He translated Gray's Anatomy and Holden's Osteology into Chinese, wrote on photography and on the medical practice of China, and sent health reports to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. He resigned from the mission in 1884 after disputes over how to balance evangelical and medical work and practised privately in Peking until his death in 1901.