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In 1887, MacAlister was appointed Librarian of the newly founded Gladstone Library of the National Liberal Club. However, after only a few months, he was elected on 9 August 1887, Resident Librarian of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (RMCS) — the forerunner of the RMS. From then on, he
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During WW I, MacAlister was Honorary Secretary of the War Office's Surgical Advisory Committee and also Organiser and Honorary Secretary of the Emergency Surgical Aid Corps for the Admiralty, War Office, and Metropolitan Police. In recognition of his work during WW I, he was knighted in 1919.
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devoted most of his time and energy to the RMCS and its successor, the RSM which consisted of the fusion of 18 societies in 1907. In 1901 he had been appointed Secretary of the Society while retaining control of the library as Consultant Librarian.
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from 1901 to 1925 and one of the promoters of the Society's formation.
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People educated at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
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and in 1889 obtained a Royal Charter for the Association.
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School
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John Young Walker MacAlister

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Royal Society of Medicine
Royal Society of Medicine
Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
University of Edinburgh
Leeds Mercury
Yorkshire Post
The Library
Library Association
Donald MacAlister


John MacAlister's Other Vision: A History of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
ISBN
1-85775-789-0
ISBN
1-85775-789-0
"MacAlister, John Y. W. Walker"
"MacAlister, Sir John Young Walker"
"The Incomparable Mac: A biographical study of Sir John Young Walker MacAlister (1856-1925)"
PMC
227472
"Donald Alexander MacAlister A.R.S.M."

John Young Walker MacAlister
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