Journal of medical biography
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Biography Historical Article
Sir Winston Churchill's doctors on the Riviera 1949-1965: Herbert Robert Burnett Gibson (1885-1967) and Dafydd (David) Myrddin Roberts (1906-1977).
In May 1940, Sir Charles McMoran Wilson (later Lord Moran) was on the instigation of Lord Max Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken, (both patients, then friends of Wilson) introduced to Winston Churchill. Thereafter, he remained Churchill's personal physician until Churchill's death. ⋯ One was Scottish, Herbert Robert Burnett Gibson and the other Welsh, Dafydd Myrddin Roberts. The military and civilian careers of these doctors are profiled here.