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Alexander M'Donald (or McDonald) was the assistant surgeon on the ship HMS Terror, which accompanied HMS Erebus in the Sir John Franklin expedition to the Northwest Passage, 1845-48. Alexander was born in September 1817 in Laurencekirk, a village some 50 km south of Aberdeen in NE Scotland. His father was Robert M'Donald (1791-1859), a manufacturer of decorative snuffboxes; his mother was Elizabeth Stiven (1793-1867).
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With several family-related, box-making businesses already established, Alexander chose a career in medicine and graduated in 1838, at the age of 21, as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (LRCSE). In his final year he was awarded the John Argyll Robertson class medal. He was also a member of the Cuvierian Natural History Society of Edinburgh.
After graduating, Alexander was employed between 1839 and 1841 by the Scottish whaling industry, which was part of a normal progression at the time for newly qualified surgeons to gain a licence to practice. It was there he consolidated his relationship with a university patron, whaling captain William Penny (Ross, 1983),...
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