Hugh Archibald McLean

While at the University Hugh studied Chemistry, Zoology, Physics, Practical Anatomy, Materia Medica, Pathology, Midwifery and Surgery. He graduated MB ChB on 23rd July 1901, and went on to practice medicine in the Dennistoun district. He married Jessie Stobo Simpson, and had two daughters, and the family lived together at 12 Annfield Place, Dennistoun.

Hugh joined the army in 1914 as a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and in 1915 was sent to Salonica for 18 months, before he was transferred to France where he stayed for a further 6 months. After this he returned to Glasgow for an operation and, once recovered, was stationed at the School of Military Instruction at Brentwood, Essex. While there he became ill with the flu, which developed into acute pneumonia and from which, on 7th November 1918, he died at the age of 39. Captain Hugh Archibald McLean is buried in Glasgow Necropolis and remembered in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.