Donald MacAlister was a member of the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society, from 1876.
15 Facts About Donald MacAlister
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Donald MacAlister was born in Perth, on 17 May 1854, the son of Daniel MacAlister, a publisher's agent and book-deliverer, living at 2 Earls Dykes in Perth who later went to live in Liverpool to work for Blackie and Son.
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Donald MacAlister's mother was Euphemia Kennedy and his younger brother, born in 1856, was Sir John MacAlister.
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Donald MacAlister rose in life from humble beginnings via school at the Liverpool Institute for Boys to achieve the highest score in the final mathematics examinations at the University of Cambridge in 1877.
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Donald MacAlister was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1886.
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Donald MacAlister was a contemporary at St John's of the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge named Kikuchi Dairoku and they were lifelong friends.
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Donald MacAlister assisted Inagaki Manjiro with a petition to the Council of the Senate to allow Japanese students to obtain exemption from the study of Latin and Greek for entrance examinations.
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Donald MacAlister played a very important part in the work of the General Medical Council.
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Donald MacAlister was elected to it in 1889 as representative of Cambridge University and became its president in 1904.
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In 1907, Donald MacAlister was appointed Principal of the University of Glasgow, in place of Very Rev Robert Herbert Story, a position from which he retired in 1929.
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Donald MacAlister took a leading part in the university business of the country.
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Donald MacAlister was one of the founders of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, and was for many years Chairman of the Standing Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the British universities.
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Donald MacAlister's work was widely recognised; he received honorary doctorates from thirteen universities and was appointed KCB in 1908 and created a baronet, of Tarbert, Cantire, in the County of Argyll, in 1924.
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Donald MacAlister's proposers were Ralph Allan Sampson, Frederick Orpen Bower, John Horne, and Thomas James Jehu.
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Donald MacAlister died in 1934 and is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife, Edith Florence Boyle.