SIR DONALD MACALISTER
SIR DONALD MACALISTER, K.C.B., M.D., M.A., LL.D., D.C.L., B.Sc, F.R.C.P.,
F.R.G.S., Principal of Glasgow University, was born at Perth in 1854. He
received his schooling at Aberdeen and Liverpool before proceeding to St. John's
College, Cambridge. There he distinguished himself as Senior Wrangler and first
Smith's Prizeman, and was elected a Fellow of his college, and afterwards Tutor
and Director of Medical Studies there. He also became Linacre Lecturer of
Physic, and physician of Addenbrooke's Hospital. For many years he represented
Cambridge University on the General Medical Council, and in 1905 succeeded Sir
William Turner of Edinburgh as the Council's president. He is chairman of the
British Pharmacopoeia Committee, and represented Great Britain at the
International Pharmacopoeia Congress in 1902. In 1898 he was Honorary President
of the International Congress of Hygiene at Madrid. He is the author of a number
of papers on medical subjects, and among his earliest works was a translation,
at request of Messrs. Macmillan, of Ziegler's text-book of pathological anatomy.
At Cambridge he from the first took an active interest in the University Medical
School, and by this means attained considerable experience in the business
affairs of the University, while as Visitor of the Medical Council he made
acquaintance with the working of the Scottish Universities. On 12th February,
1907, he received from the Crown the appointment of Principal of Glasgow
University in succession to the Very Rev. Principal Story, who had died in the
previous month. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of England. His wife
is a daughter of Dr. Alexander Macalister, Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. At
the close of 1908 the King conferred upon him the honour of a Knight Commander
of the Bath.
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