Dugald Mackichan

He was born in Glasgow in 1851 the son of Alexander Mackichan, a tobacco and snuff merchant, living at 277 Argyle Street.

[2] In 1874 he went to India and joined the University of Bombay to lecture in physics and religious studies.

In 1898 he attended the total solar eclipse of January 22 as part of K D Naegamvala’s observing expedition.

In 1877 he was married to the missionary, Eliza MacRitchie (died 1920) daughter of Rev Malcolm Ritchie.

[6] His daughter married a Rev Dr Williamson, an American missionary in India.

The inscription on Dugald Mackichan's grave, Dean Cemetery
The Wilson College, Mumbai (Bombay)
The grave of Rev Dugald Mackichan, Dean Cemetery