John Graham MacDonald Burt
Dr John Graham MacDonald Burt FRSE LLD was an eminent Scottish physician and medical author.
Life
He was born on 3 March 1809, in Edinburgh as John Graham Burt. He added the name MacDonald upon marriage.In the 1830s he is listed as a surgeon, living at 8 Bank Street in Edinburgh's Old Town.
In 1843 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1845, his proposer being Robert Christison. In 1846 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh from 1863 to 1865. He died on 9 February 1868. He was buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh, against the north wall of the original cemetery, with his wife Susanna Louisa MacDonald.