RARE! '"Medical Missionary" Sir Robert McClure Hand Signed TLS Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction a RARE! '"Medical Missionary" Sir Robert McClure Hand Signed TLS dated 1979.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-670A
Robert Baird McClure
FRCS (Edin.)
FICS
CC
(November 23, 1900 – November 10, 1991) was a
Canadian
physician
, medical
missionary
, and was elected
Moderator of the United Church of Canada
by the 23rd General Council in
Kingston
,
Ontario
in 1968. He was the first lay person to be elected to this position.
Born in
Portland, Oregon
, the son of a medical missionary, he spent the first fifteen years of his life in
China
. He graduated from the
University of Toronto
with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1922. In 1923, he was appointed a medical missionary to
Henan
, China and served until 1948. He was the only medical missionary in
India
and China who was able to provide
radium
treatment for
cancer
. He was also on the staff of the Church Missionary Society Hospital at
Gaza
,
Palestine
.