Muhammad Ajward Macan Markar, FRCP is a Sri Lankan

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. He was the first Professor of Medicine at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya.Mohamed Ajwad Macan Markar
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Mohamed Macan Markar Sir Hadji Mohamed Macan Markar (7 September 1877 – 10 May 1952) was a prominent Ceylonese colonial era legislator and businessmen. He was Minister of Home Affairs of the State Council, member of the Legislative Council and a Senator. Markar ...

, he was educated at Royal College Colombo, where he played cricket for the college at the Royal-Thomian. Macan Markar went on to study medicine at the

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, where he also represented the university at cricket. Graduating with a MBBS and winning the gold medal for in obstetrics and gynaecology, he went on to gain MBBS and

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from the

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and MRCP by 1952. He is a

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. He was the younger brother of

Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar (27 April 1911 - 15 July 1985) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) lawyer, politician and philanthropist. He was a former Member of parliament and a deputy mayor of Colombo. Born to Sir Mohamed Macan Markar, he was educated a ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macan Markar, Muhammad Ajward Sri Lankan obstetricians Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Alumni of the University of Ceylon (Colombo) Alumni of the University of London Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Academic staff of the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya) Year of birth missing (living people)