John Malcolm (professor)

John Malcolm CMG (31 August 1873 – 17 June 1954) was a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago and physiologist.

Malcolm in 1936

Life

He was born in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, on 31 August 1873[1] the son of John Malcolm, a public works contractor.

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MBChB in 1897 and gaining his MD in 1899.[2] He initially lectured in chemical physiology at the University of Edinburgh. He lived at 1 Sciennes Road in the south side of the city.[3]

In 1905 he obtained a post of professor of physiology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, William Anderson Bain, Walter Phillips Kennedy, and Philip Eggleton.[4]

In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours, Malcolm was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the medical profession.[5]

Family

On 8 November 1912, he married Vicky Simpson at All Saints' Church in Dunedin.[6] They had one daughter and two sons.[7] One of their sons, John Laurence Malcolm, after working as senior lecturer with John Eccles from 1942 to 1947 at the University of Otago, worked temporarily at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London, then emigrated from New Zealand in 1953 to be professor of physiology at the University of Aberdeen and died in 2001.

Vicky Malcolm died in 1953. John Malcolm died in Dunedin on 17 June 1954.[1]

References
  1. Robinson, James R. "John Malcolm". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Malcolm, John (1899). "Contribution to our knowledge of the specific granules in the cytoplasm of leucocytes, with special reference to the action of nucleic acid upon them". MD Thesis. hdl:1842/26737.
  3. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1903-4
  4. Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  5. "No. 37978". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1947. p. 2607.
  6. "Personal". Evening Star. No. 15027. 8 November 1912. p. 4. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  7. Scholefield, Guy (1951). Who's Who in New Zealand, 1951 (5th ed.). Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 156.
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