Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald KCSI KCIE CB DL FRGS (8 February 1862 – 27 June 1927) was a Scottish engineer, explorer and cartographer. He served as a British Army engineer, rose to the rank of Brigadier-General and was knighted. A balloon observer as a young man, he surveyed for railways in India and East Africa, explored the upper Nile region, commanded balloon sections during wars in South Africa and China and led a major expedition into Tibet in 1903–1904.
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8 February 1862 Aberdeen, Scotland
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Died |
27 June 1927 (aged 65) Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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