styles of domestic and export ceramic wares. These collections are today split between the Oriental Museum of Durham University, the University of Malaya Museum of Asian Art in Kuala Lumpur and the National University of Singapore Museum in Singapore. In December 1946, he married Audrey Marjorie Fellowes Rowley, a Canadian war widow. They had one child, daughter Fiona (married to Bob McElwain). MacDonald also adopted his wife's two children from her first marriage, Bill and Jane Rowley. Joseph Burkholder Smith, CIA agent in Singapore, recounted that MacDonald's flirtations with Chinese women caused Rowley to decamp back to Canada. Death MacDonald spent the last eleven years of his life at Raspit Hill, near Ightham in Kent. In 1981 at his home, when he went outside on a frosty night to make sure that his greenhouse was closed, he suffered a heart attack and died on 11 January 1981 at the age of 79. He was buried at his family plot at Spynie Cemetery, Morayshire in Scotland. On 9 May 2015, his widow Audrey died of natural causes in Ottawa at the age of 99 years old, three weeks before her 100th birthday. Writings As a young man, MacDonald aspired to be a novelist but did not succeed in publishing any of his writings of fiction. He wrote a number of articles for British and Canadian newspapers in the 1920s, including a series describing his travels in Japan, China and Korea in 1929. Following the assumption of his diplomatic career in 1941, MacDonald began writing factual accounts of the people, places and wildlife he encountered. He authored the following published works: Down North (1943: a description of his travels as High Commissioner to Canada) Birds of Brewery Creek (1947: a bird-watching diary regarded by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as one of the best books on the subject of North American ornithology) Borneo People (1956: an account of MacDonald's friendship with the Dayak peoples of Borneo including Iban leader Temenggong Koh Anak Jubang) Angkor (1958: one of the first English-language and systematically photographed guides to the Cambodian temple complex at Angkor Wat) Birds in My Indian Garden (1960: containing many black-and-white images) Birds in the Sun (1962: a guide to the birds of South Asia, with colour photography by MacDonald's friend Christina Loke) Treasure of Kenya (1965: another collaboration with Christina Loke which aimed to attract support amongst a British