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Biography
Very Rev Dr Dugald Mackichan FRSE DD LLD (1851–1932) was a Scottish minister and missionary in India. He was also a physicist. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Bombay 1888 to 1891 and Mackichan Hall there is named in his honour. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1917.
Life
He was born in Glasgow in 1851 the son of Alexander Mackichan, a tobacco and snuff merchant, living at 277 Argyle Street. He attended Glasgow High School.
In initially studying Science, he graduated MA in 1869 from Glasgow University. He then studied Divinity and graduated BD in 1874.
In 1874 he went to India and joined the University of Bombay to lecture in Physics and Religious Studies. He was Principal of Wilson College 1884–1920. He served as Vice Chancellor of the university for three years during his tenure. He returned to Britain in 1920.
In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Charles Glover Barkla.
He died on 7 April 1932.
He is buried with his wife in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies under the trees in the south-west inner section.
Publications
- The Missionary Ideal in the Scottish Churches (1927)
- Forty-five Years in India (1934)
Family
In 1877 he was married to the missionary, Eliza MacRitchie (d.1920).
His daughter married a Rev Dr Williamson an American missionary in India.