Brian Gilmore Maegraith (August 25, 1907 - April 2, 1989) (M.B., B.S., Adel., 1930, B.sc. D.Phil., Oxon 1934, M.A., Oxon., 1935) was born in

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, South Australia, in 1907 and went to Britain in 1931 to take up the South Australian

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. He served in France and Sierra Leone as a pathologist in the

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, led the Malaria Research Unit at Oxford, held the Deanship of Faculty of Medicine at Oxford, and was appointed to the Chair of Tropical Medicine at the

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in 1944. He died in England in 1989.

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* 1907 births 1989 deaths People from Adelaide Australian tropical physicians Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Academics of the University of Liverpool Australian pathologists Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Australian expatriates in France Australian expatriates in Sierra Leone Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Academics of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine {{Australia-med-bio-stub