Roderick Macdonald

Roderick Macdonald, (1840–1894) was a Scottish medical doctor and a Crofters Party politician. As a coroner he presided over the inquest of one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders.

Macdonald was the son of Angus Macdonald, a house carpenter, of Fairy Bridge, Skye. He was educated at the Free Church Normal School, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow. Later he was a teacher at the Free Church School, Lonmore. He then studied medicine and was LRCP and LRCS, Edinburgh in 1867. He was also a member of the Inner Temple.

He practised medicine in the East End of London, and was the divisional surgeon for the police in the Isle of Dogs.

In 1885 Macdonald was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross and Cromarty in the crofter's interest. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 election.

On 28 January 1890 Macdonald married Frances Emma Maryon Perceval (20 July 1868 – 15 March 1893), a great-granddaughter of Spencer Perceval. He lived at 65 West Ferry Road, Millwall, and later at 252 Camden Road, Middlesex, where he died from cancer, at age 54.