DR John A Wilson OBE was the physician superintendent of Mearnskirk Hospital, Newton Mearns, from 1929 to 1946. He took a great interest in the welfare of its children. The Glasgow Corporation-owned hospital, for children suffering from tuberculosis, was officially opened in October 1932 by the then-Duchess of York, the late Queen Mother. “In these open-air pavilions, built to catch every ray of sunshine,” she said, “the patients have every chance to recover.” A video that can be viewed on the website of Mearns History Group says that Dr Wilson was highly popular, especially with the young patients, to whom he liked to tell the story of Peter Pan. “It was his wish to have erected in the hospital grounds a statue to Peter Pan; he mentioned this to his friend Alfred Ellsworth, a Glasgow businessman who was a frequent benefactor to Mearnskirk Hospital.”