Ewen Maclean

Sir Ewen John Maclean FRSE LLD (1865-1953) was a Scots-born physician, who was the first Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine.

He was born on 15 October 1865 the second son of John Maclean of Kilmoluag on the Isle of Tiree, one of the most westerly of the Scottish islands. His father was a "master cordwainer" (shoemaker). His mother was Agnes Macmillan. The family were Gaelic speakers. His older brother was the politician, Donald Maclean. Around 1870 the family moved to Haverfordwest in Wales, where Ewen was educated, before attending Carmarthen Grammar School. He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MB CM with honours in 1889. In 1891, he received with honours the Edinburgh MD.

From 1889, Ewen Maclean worked in the Bristol Hospital for Women and Children as a houseman. He then moved to Chelsea Hospital for Women in London, and began his specialisations in obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, Sir German Sims Woodhead and Robert Halliday Gunning.

In 1901 he returned to Wales as Senior Gynaecologist at Cardiff Hospital. In 1911 the hospital was renamed King Edward VII Hospital. He concurrently taught midwifery at the Cardiff Medical School which was set up in response to the Midwives Act of 1902.

In the First World War he served as a Lt Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps but purely based in Britain, treating soldiers returned from the front first at Eaton Hall, Cheshire (converted to a hospital for officers for the duration of the war) then at the 3rd Western General Hospital.

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