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==Early life==
John Macadam was born at Northbank, [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], on 29 May 1827,<ref>John Macadam: www.earthwords.co.uk/macadam.htm</ref> the son of [[William Macadam]] (1783-1853) and Helen, née Stevenson (1803-1857).<ref>Sir Ivison Macadam Archives, Runton Old Hall, East Runton, Norfolk, UK</ref> His father was a Glasgow businessman, who owned a spinning and textile printing works in [[Kilmarnock]], and was a [[Burgess (title)| burgess]] and a [[bailie]] (magistrate) of Glasgow.<ref>Edwin Macadam : http://www.shelwin.com/e/ancestry/macadam/macadam_history.htm#John%20Macadam,%20MD</ref> His fellow industrialists and he in the craft had developed, using chemistry, the processes for the large-scale industrial printing of fabrics for which these plants in the area became known.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.valeofleven.org.uk/famousfolk/industrials.html.|title = The Vale of Leven's Famous Industrial People}}</ref>
John Macadam was privately educated in Glasgow; he studied [[chemistry]] at the Andersonian University (now the [[University of Strathclyde]]) and went for advanced study at the [[University of Edinburgh]] under Professor [[William Gregory (chemist)|William Gregory]]. In 1846–47, he went on to serve as assistant to [[George Wilson (chemist)|Professor George Wilson]] at the University of Edinburgh in his laboratory in Brown Square.<ref>K. F. Russell, ''Macadam, John (1827–1865)'', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macadam-john-4054/text6453, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 5 June 2016.</ref> He was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Scottish Society of Arts]] that year, and in 1848, a member of the Glasgow Philosophical Society. He then studied medicine at the [[University of Glasgow]] (LFPS, MD,1854; FFPSG,1855).<ref>K. F. Russell, ''Macadam, John (1827–1865)'', Australian Dictionary of Biography.</ref>
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