Robert Haldane Makgill [SEP] date of death
Robert Haldane Makgill
Robert Haldane Makgill (24 May 1870 – 3 October 1946) was a New Zealand surgeon, pathologist, military leader and public health administrator. He was born in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland on 24 May 1870. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB, CM in 1893 with first-class honours. He was resident surgeon at Auckland Hospital in New Zealand from 1894 to 1896.. He went back to Edinburgh to gain his MD in 1899, and completed the diploma in public health
in the 19th century was Captain Sir John Makgill. Makgill arrived with his family in Waiuku in 1882 and established a farm called 'Brackmont' at Taurangaruru. He eventually increased his holdings there to about 2500 acres, and also bought land at Orua Bay. Sir John Makgill died at Brackmont on 14 November 1906. His wife was Margaret Isabella Haldane, sister of Lord Haldane, and their eldest son was George Makgill who spent most of his adult life in Scotland, becoming 11th Baronet of Makgill on his father's death.