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Paul Howard McGillivray (1834 – 9 June 1895), also known as Paul Howard MacGillivray, was a Scots-born surgeon and naturalist in Australia.
History
[edit]McGillivray was born in Edinburgh, son of a professor of Natural History at King's College, Aberdeen,[1] and early trained to be a scientist, gaining his MA at the University of Aberdeen, but following the death of his father in 1852, turned to medicine, and in 1855 was elected a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and first visited Victoria as surgeon aboard the ship Cornwall in that year, and returned on the same ship in 1857 and was appointed medical officer at Williamstowm, which he held until 1862, when he succeeded Dr Atkinson as resident surgeon with the Bendigo Hospital.[1] He developed such a reputation that in 1874 he was elected president of the Medical Society of Victoria.[2]
He joined the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria and gained a reputation as an observer, describing novel species of plumatella[3] and studying the unique polyzoa of Australia, collected by the South Australian Museum and the "indefatigable" J. Bracebridge Wilson around Port Phillip Heads.[4]
In 1880 he was accepted as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS) and in 1888 was a founding member of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
He died at his residence, Forest-street, Bendigo/
Family
[edit]In 1875 McGillivray married Isabella Shields of Launceston, Tasmania; they had one son and five daughters:[1] The son, William McGillivray, had headed west, and his last known address was Cue, Western Australia in December 1895, and as nothing was heard of him since, had to be presumed dead in 1902.[5]
John MacGillivray, the explorer of Papua New Guinea and nearby islands, was a brother.
H. H. Hayter and C. A. Topp were brothers-in-law.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Death of Dr P. H. MacGillivray". Bendigo Advertiser. Vol. XLIII, no. 12, 534. Victoria, Australia. 10 July 1895. p. 3. Retrieved 31 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation: MacGillivray, Paul Howard (1834–1895)". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
- ^ "Royal Society of Victoria". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 4, 497. Victoria, Australia. 30 October 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 31 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Royal Society of South Australia". The Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XXI, no. 5853. South Australia. 5 June 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 31 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Advertising". The Leader (Melbourne). No. 3002. Victoria, Australia. 19 July 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 31 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Death of a Bendigo Physician". The Age. No. 12, 593. Victoria, Australia. 10 July 1895. p. 6. Retrieved 31 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
Category:1834 births
Category:1895 deaths
Category:19th-century Australian scientists
Category:Australian naturalists
Category:19th-century Australian medical doctors