Barbara Ann Jones Fund

Barbara Ann Jones was the daughter of Dr John Coulthard McVittie OBE, MB, CHB, DPH, in 2018 she passed away and left a legacy of £10,000.  This was given to Kirkbride Primary School to use to enable former pupils to embark on further education.

The reason she left this money was due to the fact that her father always spoke so highly of his time at the school and when he lived in the village. He still has distant relatives that live in the village.

His family told us that he always talked about his time living in Kirkbride and how he would cycle to school - Dumfries Academy.

He lived at a house on Boundary Bank.

An excerpt from the British Medical Journal – 1st March 1980 (Obituaries)

Dr John Coulthard McVittie

OBE, MB, CHB, DPH

Dr John McVittie, formerly a principal medical officer in the DHSS, died on 25th December after a long illness.  He was 79.

John Coulthard McVittie graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1924.  He was one of the last survivors of the old Silicosis Medical Board, which he joined in 1930, transferring later to the Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel when it was formed in 1948.  He spent part of his career in South Wales, first in Swansea and later in Cardiff, before being sent to headquarters in London where he was subsequently appointed principal medical officer with responsibility for the pneumoconiosis medical panels.

Dr McVittie was greatly respected and admired for the high quality of his work, and was liked by the miners whom he had to examine, as spontaneous tributes to his kindly interest still testify.  He was able to continue his work on pneumoconiosis after retirement as he was appointed consultant to the Workman's Compensation Board in Nova Scotia, where he did much valuable work. He was appointed OBE in 1965.  Dr McVittie was a modest, unassuming, good man who made friends easily.”

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