Angus Macdonald (obstetrician)

Angus Macdonald FRSE FRCPE (18 April 1836 – 10 February 1886), was a Scottish physician, obstetrician and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

He went to work as a farm labourer in Grange, Banffshire; his formal education was limited to two years in the parish school as a result.

However, supported by the local schoolmaster, Arthur Gerrard, and his mother, Margaret Bremner Macdonald, "a woman of character and of vigorous intellect",[1] he won a competitive scholarship to King's College, Aberdeen at the age of 19.

[6] In 1878, he published "On The Bearings of Chronic Disease of the Heart Upon Pregnancy, Parturition, and Childbed," a textbook in obstetrics in use for over 50 years.

After his death the house was bought and occupied by a former junior colleague, Dr David Berry Hart.