Donald McArthur

Prof Donald Neil McArthur FRSE FRIC (1892-1965) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist who served as the Director of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Science from 1948 to 1958.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 2 August 1892 the son of Donald McArthur, a coal trader and ship owner, and his wife Anne Dewar. The family lived at 15 Maxwell Drive in Glasgow.[1] He was educated at Allan Glen's School then studied Chemistry at Glasgow University graduating BSc in 1913.

He went to work at the West of Scotland College of Agriculture first as a Lecturer and was promoted to Professor following his award of a doctorate in 1928.[2] In 1945 he moved to the Macaulay Institute near Aberdeen, becoming its Director in 1948.

In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Montagu F. Drummond, Alexander Lauder, Sir James Walker and George Barger.[3]

In 1953 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

He died in Edinburgh on 23 August 1965.

Family

He married Anne Videon Brough.

Publications
  • A New Photographic Phenomenon (1919)

References
  1. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1892
  2. http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/net03849/d0046/g0004618.html
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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