John Malcolm (31 August 1873 – 17 June 1954) was a

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professor at the

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and

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Life

He was born in

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, Scotland, on 31 August 1873 the son of John Malcolm, a public works contractor. He studied medicine at the

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graduating with an MBChB in 1897 and gaining his MD in 1899. He initially lectured in chemical physiology at the

. He lived at 1 Sciennes Road in the south side of the city. In 1905 he obtained a post of professor of physiology at the

in New Zealand. In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, William Anderson Bain, Walter Phillips Kennedy, and Philip Eggleton. In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours, Malcolm was appointed a

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for services to the medical profession.

Family

On 8 November 1912, he married Vicky Simpson at All Saints' Church in Dunedin. They had one daughter and two sons. One of their sons, John Laurence Malcolm, after working as senior lecturer with John Eccles from 1942 to 1947 at the

, worked temporarily at

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in London, then emigrated from New Zealand in 1953 to be professor of physiology at the

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and died in 2001. Vicky Malcolm died in 1953. John Malcolm died in

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on 17 June 1954.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malcolm, John 1873 births 1954 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh New Zealand physiologists People from Caithness Scottish emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Academic staff of the University of Otago