Colonel Donald James MacKintosh (13 January 1862 – 12 June 1947) was a Scottish physician, soldier and public health expert.

Life

He was born in

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in 1862 the son of Donald MacKintosh, the local schoolmaster. He was educated locally at the Dykehead School. After a general degree at

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he then studied Medicine at

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graduating MB ChB in 1884. He began working in the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and then moved to the Belvidere Fever Hospital then from 1892 as Medical Superintendent of the

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. A keen soldier he left his wife and son (who went to live with relatives in

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during the Boer War and serving in South Africa he rose to the rank of Colonel. In 1902 he helped to design the Glasgow Infirmary Outpatients Department with the architect

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. The building was opened in 1905. In November 1902 he was created a Member of the Victorian Order MVO by King

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. In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Sir

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and

Ralph Stockman Ralph Stockman (3 August 1861–27 February 1946) was a Scottish Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia. Life Stoc ...

. He lived in Western Infirmary House, a property reserved for senior physicians at the hospital. He died in Glasgow in 1947.

Family

He was married to Margaret (Maggie) Fullarton. Their children included Donald MacKintosh who received a posthumous

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for his self-sacrifice in the

Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras, also known as the Second Battle of Arras, was a British offensive on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the Fr ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacKintosh 1862 births 1947 deaths People from Lanarkshire Alumni of the University of Glasgow Royal Army Medical Corps officers 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Companions of the Order of the Bath Members of the Royal Victorian Order Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I