Obituary Of Dr. Macdonald

by **Karen** Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 20:35

Dr. Roderick Macdonald, Coroner for the North-East Middlesex District, headed the inquest on the death of Mary Jane Kelly, murdered by Jack The Ripper, on November 9, 1888.

OBITUARY

Dr. RODERICK MACDONALD, coroner for North-East London, and late M.P. for Ross-shire, who died recently at his residence in Camden Road, was the son of a crofter, of Skye, where he was born. He became a tutor, and subsequently studied for the medical profession at Edinburgh, where he took the M.D. degree in 1883. He came to London and practiced in the East End, and was divisional surgeon of the police in the Isle of Dogs. When the East Middlesex district was divided, about seven years ago, he was elected to the coronership for the north-east portion.

Source: The British Medical Journal, March 24, 1894, page 664