Brian Gilmore Maegraith (August 25, 1907 - April 2, 1989) (M.B., B.S., Adel., 1930, B.sc. D.Phil., Oxon 1934, M.A., Oxon., 1935) was born in
Adelaide
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, South Australia, in 1907 and went to Britain in 1931 to take up the South Australian
Rhodes Scholarship
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
at
Magdalen College, Oxford
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. He served in France and Sierra Leone as a pathologist in the
Royal Army Medical Corps
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, led the Malaria Research Unit at Oxford, held the Deanship of Faculty of Medicine at Oxford, and was appointed to the Chair of Tropical Medicine at the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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in 1944.
He died in England in 1989.
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1907 births
1989 deaths
People from Adelaide
Australian tropical physicians
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Australian pathologists
Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
Australian expatriates in France
Australian expatriates in Sierra Leone
Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Academics of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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