Professor Thomas Jones Mackie Commander of the Order of the British Empire was a noted Scottish bacteriologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh; and author of medical research textbooks.
Education
Taking the Oxford Diploma in Public Health, he worked as an assistant in the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology at the Middlesex Hospital until, on outbreak of the First World War in 1914, as a Territorial he was attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps (Royal Army Medical Corps) as an officer, serving mainly in the Middle East, and was appointed to the command of the Central Bacteriological Laboratory in Alexandria, Egypt, this leading in 1918 to his appointment to the Werner-Beit chair of bacteriology in the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Career
Born at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1923, Mackie was offered the chair of bacteriology in the University of Edinburgh, a post he held for the next 32 years during which he also co-authored, A Handbook of Bacteriology (1938) (with J East McCartney) and A Textbook of Bacteriology (eleventh edition, 1949) (with C H Browning). In recognition of his work, Professor Mackie was appointed C.B.E. in 1942 and in 1947 an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the University of Glasgow.
In 1953 Professor Mackie succeeded Sir Sydney Smith (forensic expert) as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Mackie died at Edinburgh on 6 October 1955.
Membership
Professor Mackie served as an advisor to many organisations, including appointments as honorary bacteriologist and senior consultant in Bacteriology, and member of the Board of Management Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Member of the South-eastern Regional Hospital Board. Council member, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
And member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland (and chairman of the Infectious Diseases Subcommittee) Closely involved in the development of the laboratory service in Scotland, at the beginning of World World War II the Central Military Laboratory was based in his own department at the University of Edinburgh.
Professor Mackie also served as a member of the Agricultural Research Council. Director of the Animal Diseases Research Association (Scotland).
And as chairman of the Scottish Hill Farm Research Committee and as an examiner for the University of Aberdeen. University of Street Andrews.
University of Glasgow.
University of Durham and the University of Sheffield. He was also a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Rome. A Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
