My g.father was David Gray born 29/1/1874 Coatbridge Lanarkshire.
His eldest sister was Jane Alice(aka jean)Gray born 29/6/1868 Greenock Scotland
Jane married Malcolm Watson born 24/8/1873 Cathcart Renfrewshire
They married 23/11/1900 Partick Parish Church (Scotlands People)
occ: Physician & surgeon (Later became Sir Malcolm Watson)
I could only find him on the 1881 Scottish census with his family, father George.
Then after much research I found: At the bottom it mentions Jean Gray.
birth: 1873 WATSON MALCOLM CATHCART /LANARK/RENFREW 560/00 0234 (Scotlandspeople)
marriage says usual residence Hampstead London
Apart from the 1881 census I cannot trace malcolm at all
Born in Cathcart, near Glasgow, on the 24th August 1873, Malcolm Watson was the son of George Watson, a Commercial Traveller. After an education at Glasgow High School, Malcolm first matriculated at the University of Glasgow in the summer of 1890 at the tender age of 16. He signed up to study Botany, Practical Botany and Anatomy and so began his medical career.
Malcolm would study the typical medical subjects like Surgery, Pathology, Materia Medica and Midwifery but in his final year, 1894-95, he would find time to squeeze in the study of English Literature also.
He was certainly a very promising student and picked up three First Class Certificates. He was in fact listed as first in his class for Clinical Surgery in 1891-02 and continued this trend by winning the William Cullen Medal for the subject in 1893-04. Malcolm Watson graduated on the 25th July 1895 with an MB CM and a commendation. He would proceed to MD in 1903 with a thesis titled: ‘The effect of drainage on malaria’.
As soon as he qualified, Malcolm travelled to places such as South Africa, Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines and joined the Malayan Medical Service in 1900 at the age of 27. In Malaya, he became the pioneer of malarial control and, importantly, was able to establish the causes of the deadly disease. He would remain a very important figure in the study of malaria and was heavily involved in the fight against the disease all his life.
Malcolm Watson became the Principal of the Department of Malaria Control at the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. Because of his long friendship with Ronald Ross, the Ross family gave Malcolm (after the death of Ronald) a silver casket that had been presented to Ronald by the 1087 Anti-Malaria and Public Health Societies of Bengal for his work on malaria. Sir Malcolm Watson presented this casket to the University of Glasgow in 1946-47 and it is now part of the University's silver collection.
He was knighted in 1924 for his services in Malaya and the University of Glasgow conferred upon him the honorary degree of LLD in the same year.
Sir Malcolm Watson died on the 28th December 1955, aged 82.
Obituary:
Sir Malcolm Watson died on the 28th December 1955, aged 82.
Sir MALCOLM WATSON, M.D., LL.D., F.R.F.P.S.
We record with regret the death on December 28, at the
age of 82, of Sir Malcolm Watson, who was the pioneer
of malaria control and its outstanding exponent for many
years.
Malcolm Watson was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow,
,on August 24, 1873. From Glasgow High School he
went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, where
he graduated M.B., C.M.,
with commendation, in
1895. He proceeded to
the M.D. in 1903. Immediately
after qualifying he
set out for South Africa,
Austfalia, Singapore, and
the Philippines. This tour
probably made him responsive
to the call of the
East, and after holding a
series of resident appointments
at the Glasgow
_/ Royal Infirmary, he took
the D.P.H. of Cambridge
Portra_ University and joined the
[Press Portrait Bureau Malayan Medical Service
in 1900 at the age
of 27. Malaya was then in a very critical condition.
There was the prospect of unexampled prosperity from
the new and rapidly expanding rubber industry, but this
prospect was gravely jeopardized by overwhelming,
devastating malaria epidemics. Ross had just demonstrated
the transmission cycle, but it had never been
applied in control. Watson in Malaya, and his friend
Le Prince in Havana, were the pioneers in its application.
Watson combined the new knowledge with a great understanding
of epidemiological principles and was thereby
able to define the circumstances which led to malarial
prevalence. To these he added a broad outlook, great
adaptability, and a willingness to discover techniques of
civil engineering, and was thereby able to devise means
of control to suit any situation he encountered. There
was no ready formula, but he possessed an unmatched
expert ability to appreciate a situation and counter its
risks.
Within a few years the peril to the expanding rubber
industry had gone, the previously pest-stricken towns of
Malaya were almost health resorts, and abandoned construction
work, such as on Port Swettenham, had been
resumed. The miracle had happened and Malcolm
Watson had worked it. During this progress, in 1908,
he had left Government service and settled in estate
practice and as a consultant in malaria control and
hygiene, being called in to advise on the maintenance
of many projects, including especially the Perak River
hydro-electric scheme and the sanitation of Singapore.
Not only Watson, but with him Malaya also, became
pre-eminent in malaria control and admittedly led the
world until the Japanese occupation in 1942. In 1914
he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Rubber Growers'
Association; in 1925 he was elected a Fellow of the
Incorporated Society of Planters. His book on Rural
Sanitation in the Tropics was first published in 1915,
and he was also the author of a book entitled Preventioni
of Malaria in the Federated Malaya States (1911). When
the time came for him to leave Malaya in 1928 he had
helped to free hundreds of square miles of territorv
from malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and had recorded the
results of his work and the conclusions to be drawn from
them in numerous articles, as well as in the two books
already mentioned. He was also the author of the
sections on the Malay States in Ross's Preventioni of
Malaria and on mosquito control in Byam and
Archibald's Practice of Medicine in the Tropics.
Returning to London in 1928, Watson u-as appoinited
director of the malaria department of the Ross Institute
at Putney and physician to the Hospital for Tropical
Diseases. When the Ross Institute was amalgamated
with the London School of Hygiene in 1933, Watson
remained director of the Institute and was appointed in
addition director of the department of tropical hygiene
at the School. In this post he set out to accelerate the
application of malaria control in other countries. He
built the Ross Institute in doing so. He visited India and
Ceylon in 1928 and 1929, creating the India -branch,
which, under Dr. Ramsay, applied his principles and
new techniques to the problems of the tea and other
industries. In 1930 he visited the Belgian Congo and
the Rhodesias, and again implanted his principles in the
new and growing copper belt. In 1931 he went to Italy
and Albania; in 1932 and 1935 he revisited Central and
Southern Africa ; in 1937 he went out to the Britishowned
mines in Yugoslavia, and also to Ceylon and
Malaya; and in 1939 he went again to Southern
Rhodesia and to India and Ceylon. The advice he gave
to the Rhodesian mining companies resulted in the
setting up of model, and malaria-free, townships in
equatorial Africa. He retired from directorship of the
Ross Institute in 1942.
Sir Malcolm was always an active supporter of the
British Medical Association. He was president of the
Malaya Branch in 1910 and agaih in 1922, and three
years ago he served for a term as president of the Sturrey
BRITISH
MEDICAL JOURNAL 52 JAN.- 7, 1 956
OBITUARY
Branch. He was a member of the Central Council
between 1928 and 1934, and of numerous committees,
including the Dominions Committee, Indian Medical
Services Committee, the Committee on the Organization
of the Medical Profession in India, and the Special
Committee on the Relation of the Association to the
Profession in India. In 1927, while he was still in
Malaya, the British Medical Association awarded him
the Stewart Prize for his scientific and administrative
work.
For his services in Malaya he was knighted in 1924,
and the University of Glasgow conferred on him the
honorary degree of LL.D. in the same year. Two years
later he received the honorary diploma of L.M.S. from
the College of Medicine in Singapore. In 1928 he was
awarded the Sir William Jones Gold Medal, of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal for contributions to science,
and in 1934 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
awarded him the Mary Kingsley Medal. In the preceding
year he had been elected an honorary Fellow of
the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
He gave the Finlayson Memorial Lecture in 1934,
the Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture in 1936, the Bacot
Memorial Lecture in 1937, and in 1948 the Ronald Ross
Oration in Washington, D.C., where he was honorary
president of the Fourth International Congress on
Tropical Medicine and Malaria. While working in
Malaya he had been a member of the Malaria Advisory
Board of the Federated Malay States, and in the
years before the second world war he was a member
of the Malaria Committee of the League of Nations. In
1950 he visited Boston' Mass., representing the Ross
Institute at an International Conference on Health
Problems in Industries Operating in Tropical Countries.
He had always been interested in engineering, and only
a few years ago he was the inventor, with Lady Watson,
of a patent process for control of dust in mines and for
the prevention of silicosis. Two years ago he published
a book entitled African Highway, which dealt, among
other matters, with medical aspects of industrial development
in that continent.
Sir Malcolm Watson was twice married. His first
wife, formerly Miss Jean Gray, died in 1935. They
had three sons. In 1938 he married Miss Constance
Loring, by whom he had one daughter.-G. M.
WILLIAM BARR, M.D., D.Sc., D.P.H.
Jane (Jean) Gray died 1935 Epsom Surrey
Malcolm remarried Constance Evelyn Loring born 1899 Malta. Daughter of Lt. Colonel Walter Lathom Loring of the Royal Warwickshire Regt. Killed in action 23/10/1914
Walter had a brother: Ernest Kindersley Loring who married Ottilie Maud Messel
Father: Ludwig Ernest William Leonnhard Messel born 1847 Damstraat Germany occ: stockbroker/banker (plenty on him when googled)
Ottilie has a brother:
Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel born 1872 Brixton Occ: lt. Colonel/Stockbroker.
He married maud Frances Sambourne born 1874 Kensington
3 children:
Linley F messel 1899-1971
Anne messel 1902 - 1992
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel 1902 -1992
Anne messel married Ronald Owen Armstrong - Jones (later divorced) became Countess of Rosse.
One of their children was: Anthony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margarets' hubby
If your still awake? zzzzz
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