Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Road Trip Drive To Parish Church And Cemetery In Clunie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a sunny road trip drive, with music, on a narrow Scottish road on ancestry visit the Parish Church and cemetery in Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland. The parish church was rebuilt in 1840, and is a Gothic structure, with a tower. John James Rickard Macleod was born on 6 September 1876, in Clunie. Soon after he was born, his father Robert Macleod, a clergyman, was transferred to Aberdeen, where John attended Aberdeen Grammar School and enrolled in the study of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Canada, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was married to Mary W. McWalter, but they never had children. He died on 16 March 1935 in Aberdeen after several years of suffering from arthritis.

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