John Cecil Macgown was a Scottish doctor in Hong Kong and member of the sanitary board.
[1] Macgown went to Hong Kong and was the principal of the medical firm of Macgown, Anderson, and Durran and principal medical officer of China Underwriters, Ltd..
He was on the consulting staff of the Alice Memorial Hospital and affiliated hospital and member of the New Territories medical benevolent branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
[2] Dr. Macgown served in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, holding the rank of major in the medical section of the corps from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War.
[2] Macgown was the president of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society.