Sir George Husband Baird Macleod

Biographical Summary

MACLEOD, SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD. 21/09/1828-31/08/1892. Ref: 988. Male.

• Titles and British Honours: Knight(1887), DL.
• Place of Birth: Manse of Campsie, Stirlingshire.
• Place of Death: Woodside Crescent, Glasgow.
• Place of interment: Campsie Churchyard.
• Profession: Surgeon.
• Appointments Held: Senior Surgeon 1854-6, Smyrna Civil Hospital, Crimea; Lecturer then Professor 1859-69, Surgery, Anderson's College, Glasgow; Professor 1869-92, Surgery, Glasgow University; Senior Surgeon, Glasgow Western Infirmary.
• Schools and Tutors: William Munsie's Academy, Glasgow, and in Arran.
• Undergraduate Studies: MD (Glasgow1853).
• Postgraduate Studies: Medicine in Paris and Vienna, LL D(St Andrews).
• Mother: Agnes Maxwell.
• Father: Rev Norman Macleod,1783-1862. Minister, Campsie,later Dean of The Chapel Royal.
• References: DNB,35, 1893, 217 (in notice of his father, Norman Macleod); Proc Roy Soc Edinb, 19, 1891-2, xl-liii; A Boyle et. al. Scotland's Cultural Heritage, 4, 1983.
• Memberships: FRCSE, FFPSG, FRCSI.
• Date of Election: 17/01/1870.
• Proposers: James Matthews Duncan (Billet 3/1/1870).
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 604

Other References

• "Sir George Husband Baird MacLeod", The University of Glasgow Story