| Was |
Artist Tattoo artist |
| Type |
Arts Creativity |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 25 June 1860 |
| Death |
18 June 1942, Surbiton, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, London (aged 82 years) |
| Star sign | Cancer |
Sutherland Macdonald was a prominent English tattoo artist in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and the first tattooist in Britain with an identifiable premises open to the public. Macdonald served in the British Army in the 1870s as a telegraph operator in the Royal Engineers and was in the Anglo-Zulu War. He trained George Burchett. He died at his home on 3 Guilford Avenue, Surbiton and is buried at Surbiton Cemetery.