Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAC/1/2/Macalister/1/22
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJCR/SJAC/1/2/Macalister/1/22
Title
Admissions - Y
Date(s)
- 1893-1905 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 item. Paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1854-1934)
Biographical history
Sir Donald Macalister was born in Perth, Scotland, on the 17th May 1854, the son of another Donald Macalister. He was educated in Scotland for the first few years of his life, and then in Liverpool, before being admitted to St John’s College, Cambridge in 1874. He had won a scholarship from St John’s, but also from Balliol, Worchester, and Oxford. He was Senior Wrangler and a Smith’s prizeman in 1877, and was immediately elected as a fellow of the college.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes: Yorke, AR.