John Dalgleish Donaldson (born 5 September 1941), is a Scots-Australian professor and father of

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, the wife of

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Family and marriages

John Donaldson was born at

Cockenzie and Port Seton Cockenzie and Port Seton ( ; ) is a unified town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, four miles east of Musselburgh. The burgh of Cockenzie was created in 1591 by James VI of Scotland. Port Seton harbour was bui ...

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, the son of Captain Peter Donaldson and his wife, Mary Dalgleish. Captain Donaldson had sailed regularly from Port Seton Harbour, then in 1962 it is recorded the vessel ''Shearwater'' navigating the

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with a cargo of livestock under his command was lost off

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. He and his crew were saved and there are still remains of the ship on the island today. On 31 August 1963, John Donaldson married his first wife, Henrietta Clark Horne (1942–1997), at Port Seton. They emigrated to

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, Australia, in November of that year. Donaldson's parents, his elder brother Peter and younger sister Roy also emigrated to Tasmania. His father then joined a large

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as a

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. They had four children, Jane Alison Donaldson (born 26 December 1965), Patricia Anne Donaldson (born 16 March 1968), John Stuart Donaldson (born 9 July 1970) and

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(born 5 February 1972), married in 2004 to

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(now King Frederik X). In addition to

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, Donaldson obtained Australian citizenship in 1975. Henrietta died on 20 November 1997, and Donaldson later married Susan Elizabeth Horwood (born 1940) on 5 September 2001. She is a

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who writes under the names Susan Moody, Susannah James and Susan Madison.

Education

In 1963, Donaldson graduated from the

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with a BSc degree with honours in Mathematics and Physics. After Edinburgh, Donaldson moved to

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to work under the direction of mathematician Professor David Elliott at the

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, taking a

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in Mathematics in 1967.

Career

After receiving his

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in 1967, Donaldson remained at the University of Tasmania as a

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in applied mathematics, becoming

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until retiring in 2003. With the

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, he served on the Scottish Australian Heritage Council.

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of Applied Mathematics at the

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(KAIST), Donaldson was previously a

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at several universities in

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, then

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, from 2004 at

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and from 2006 also at the

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. A keen rugby player and a member of the University Associates Rugby Union Club, John Donaldson is renown as having captained the last Tasmanian State Rugby Team to play against a touring New Zealand All Black Team, at Queensborough Oval, Hobart, on 25 May 1968.

Honours, title and coat of arms

(

received by Dr J. D. Donaldson, 1968 * Grand Cross of the

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, 2004Australian Heraldry Society: New arms for Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
– website of the Australian Heraldry Society (Accessed 5 May 2011) Upon the marriage of his daughter to the then Crown Prince Frederik in 2004, Donaldson was appointed to the

. In accordance with the statutes of the Danish Royal Orders, both he and his daughter were granted

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to display in the Chapel of the Royal Orders at

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Publications

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Notes and references

*Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser, Reference: 2004 11 *The Ancestry of Mary Elizabeth Donaldson 2006, Reitwiesner, William Addams, Reference: nr.2

External links

John D. Donaldson @ Mathematics Genealogy Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Donaldson, John Dalgleish 1941 births Living people People from Cockenzie and Port Seton Scottish emigrants to Australia Naturalised citizens of Australia Alumni of the University of Edinburgh University of Tasmania alumni Academic staff of the University of Tasmania Academic staff of KAIST Australian expatriates in South Korea Australian mathematicians Australian physicists Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog