Dr Robert Johnston, a former Dundee chest specialist who worked for almost 30 years at King’s Cross and Ashludie hospitals, has died aged 89.
Born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, where his father was a Presbyterian minister, Dr Johnston moved to Fraserburgh with his family when he was a boy.
He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and gained an MD (Hon) at Aberdeen University in 1943. He then enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and was posted to the Gold Coast in Africa for two years.
When hostilities ended, Dr Johnston worked at Royal Brompton Hospital in London and also spent a year at a New York hospital before studying for his membership of the Royal College of Physicians, becoming a chest specialist.
In 1956, he applied for a job at the chest clinic in Constitution Road and worked there and at King’s Cross and Ashludie until his retiral in 1985. In the late 1970s, he was president of the Thoracic Society.
Dr Johnston, who lived in Broughty Ferry, is survived by his wife Elizabeth, whom he met while she was a nurse, two daughters Ann Fiona and Susan and son Martin.
