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Sir Patrick Manson.
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John Manson,
of Fingask.
He mar Elizabeth Blaikie [bapt 2 Mar 1822].
She is descendant of Robert III, King of Scotland and of Henry I.
They had issue:

1. Sir Patrick Manson, FRS,
   born 3 October 1844.
   Founder of the field of tropical medicine.
   He was a physician who made important discoveries in parasitology.
   He suggested that the agent that causes malaria is spread by the mosquito.
   He discovered a new species of the flatworm that causes Schistosomiasis. This species of flatworm is now called Schistosoma mansoni.
   He founded the London School of Tropical Medicine.
   He died 9 April 1922, age 77 yrs.
   There is a plaque to him on the Cruickshank Building of the University of Aberdeen, in the Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen (see map).