William Stobie
Mayor of Oxford 1930/1
William Stobie (1886–1957) was born in Edinburgh, the son of William Stobie. He was educated at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as a doctor. He married Irene Beatrice Taylor of Shelsley Walsh near Worcester in 1914, and their son William Douglas Kerr Stobie was born in 1920.
During the First World War Stobie served as Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Belgium, and was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Defence Force in 1919.
When the 40-bed Osler Pavilion for tuberculosis patients in Headington opened in 1927, Stobie was appointed assistant physician and in practice was in full charge from the start. He lived at Craigmillar, 382 Banbury Road.
In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicans and appointed Consultant in Tuberculosis to the City and County. He was also appointed Physician at the Oxford Eye Hospital. He was a Fellow of Exeter College and lectured on Respiratory Diseases and Medical Ophthalmology at the University.
He was appointed Mayor of Oxford in 1930, and was influential in appointing Dr Williams as medical officer of health for Oxford and Dr Charles Hill (later Lord Hill) as his deputy.
Stobie was an Alderman from 1931 to 1934 and also served a term as Sheriff of Oxford. He retired in 1952, and died in 1957.
See also:
- Oxford Times, 13 July 1951, p. 8 (retirement)
- Oxford Times, 8 March 1957, p. 6 (obituary and funeral)
- A.H.T. Robb-Smith, A Short History of the Radcliffe Infirmary (United Oxford Hospitals, 1970), pp. 146–7
- Who’s Who in Oxfordshire, p. 346