Dates: | 1840, 23 July - 1922, 17 December | Died: | England, Hants., West End |
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John Falconer, British Library A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, India
MA, Mareschal College, Aberdeen, 1857; Indian Medical Service (Bengal) 1869-92; Member of Medical Board, India Office, 1893-7; Professor of Military Medicine, Netley, 1897-1905.
Author: Indian medical memories (1909), numerous medical works on India, editor of the Indian Medical Gazette, 1871-91.
‘I have been unable to arrange for the photographing by amateurs of any of the buildings except those in Jessore, which Dr Mcleod. But he is not a very experienced or successful artist.’[1]
A further letter from Chapman, dated 17 March 1868, notes of Macleod’s photographs of the tomb of Khan Jehan Ali at Bageehal[?] that, ‘although the photographs are not very successful, they must have cost Dr McLeod much trouble.’[2]
Footnotes
- Λ Letter dated 13 February 1868 from R.B. Chapman, Bengal General Proceedings, no.117 of June 1868, IOR/P/432/4.
- Λ Bengal General Proceedings, no.121 of June 1868, IOR/P/432/4.
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