John Malcolm (professor)
John Malcolm was a Scottish physiologist and university professor in New Zealand.Life
He was born in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, on 31 August 1873 the son of John Malcolm, a public works contractor.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MBChB in 1897 and gaining his MD in 1899. He initially lectured in chemical physiology at the University of Edinburgh. 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 University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 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 Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the medical profession.
He died in Dunedin on 17 June 1954.Family
He is thought to be the grandfather of John Laurence Malcolm of Otago who emigrated from New Zealand in 1953 to be professor of physiology at the University of Aberdeen, and died in 2001.
