John Denis Macdonald
1826–1908
Naval medical officer and biologist. Trained at Cork school of medicine and King’s College, London. Entered the navy as assistant surgeon in 1849. Served on the Herald, 1852–9. Professor of naval hygiene, Netley, 1872. Deputy inspector general, 1875; inspector general, 1880. Head, Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, 1883–6. FRS 1859.
Source
ODNB.
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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