Robert Baird McClure

Robert Baird McClure
Born November 23, 1900
Portland, Oregon
Died November 10, 1991 (aged 90)
Known for Moderator of the United Church of Canada
Awards Order of Canada

Robert Baird McClure, CC (November 23, 1900 November 10, 1991) was a Canadian physician, medical missionary, and the 23rd Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1968 to 1971.

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.

He was Moderator of the United Church of Canada 1968–1971 and in 1971 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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Preceded by
Wilfred C. Lockhart
Moderator of the United Church of Canada
1968–1971
Succeeded by
Arthur B. B. Moore