James Macdonald
British engineer
Died when: 65 years 139 days (784 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Major General Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald KCSI KCIE CB DL FRGS (8 February 1862 – 27 June 1927) was a British engineer, explorer, military officer and cartographer.
Born in the Madras Presidency, he was a balloon observer as a young man, surveyed for railways in British India and East Africa, explored the upper Nile region, commanded balloon sections during the Second Boer War and Boxer Rebellion and led the British expedition to Tibet in 1903–1904.
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