Brian Gilmore Maegraith

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, South Australia, in 1907 and went to Britain in 1931 to take up the South Australian Rhodes Scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He served in France and Sierra Leone as a pathologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 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 in 1944. He died in England in 1989.