Donald MacAlister, 1st baronet
1854–1934
Physician. Studied mathematics at Cambridge. Senior wrangler, 1877. Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, from 1877. Studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. MD 1884. Consultant physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, from 1884. Principal of Glasgow University from 1907; chancellor from 1929. Knighted, 1908. Created baronet, 1924.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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