James Ronald Leslie Macdonald
Major-General James Ronald Leslie Macdonald (1862-1927) was a British engineer, explorer, military officer and cartographer.
Born in Rajahmundry in the Madras Presidency, India, the son of Surgeon-Major James Macdonald (1828–1906) of Aberdeen and his wife Margaret Helen Collie
As a lieutenant, on 15 May 1885 Macdonald was appointed to the corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners, Torpedo service, Calcutta on special duty as a balloon photographer. He served in the Hazara campaign of 1888, and also working in the Indian railway organization.
Surveyor for the Uganda Railway. The Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA Co) commission was to survey a railway route from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Port Florence on the shores of Lake Victoria, roughly following the existing caravan route. The Survey began in December 1891, and took more than a year.
1927 Died at Bournemouth