Roderick Macdonald, FRCS (1840–1894) was a Scottish medical doctor and a Crofters Party politician.
[2] He practised medicine in the East End of London, and was the divisional surgeon for the police in the Isle of Dogs.
[3] In 1885 Macdonald was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross and Cromarty in the crofter's interest.
[4] Around 1887, he was elected as coroner for the north-east part of East Middlesex.
He presided over the inquest into the death of Mary Jane Kelly, one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders, at Shoreditch Town Hall on 12 November 1888.