Dr James Mackay Shewan LLD FSA Scot FRSE FRSC FIBiol CBiol FIFST (1909–1988) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist, bacteriologist and amateur historian.
He was born on 6 December 1909 in Kirkhill, Invernessshire the son of the local schoolmaster, also James Mackay Shewan, and his wife, Jane Ridland.
There he was educated at the Central Secondary School and won a scholarship to Aberdeen University where he studied Chemistry and Geology, graduating BSc in 1932.
[1] In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His proposers were George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, Vero Wynne-Edwards and Alexander Macdonald.