MACGREGOR, John (son of Sir Duncan Macgregor 1787–1881). b. Gravesend 24 Jany. 1825; saved from Kent East Indiaman 1 March 1825; ed. at King’s school, Canterbury and 6 other schools; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1839–40 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1844–7, 34th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; wrote and sketched for Punch 1845; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; travelled in his canoe the Rob Roy 15 feet long, from France to Switzerland 1865, the first of his many canoe journeys; always known as Rob Roy Macgregor; a founder of Shoeblack brigade 1851; hon. sec. of the Open-Air mission of the Pure literature society and of the Protestant Alliance 1853; member for Greenwich on the London school board 28 Nov. 1870 to 1876; the profits of his books and receipts from his many lectures were all given to charities; author of Three days in the East 1851; The law of reformatories 1856; Our brothers and cousins, a tour in Canada 1859; A description of the Rob Roy canoe 1866; A thousand miles in the Rob Roy canoe 1866, 13 ed. 1891; A voyage alone in the yawl Rob Roy 1867; The Rob Roy on the Baltic 1867; The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth 1869, 6 ed. 1880. d. Lochiel, Boscombe near Bournemouth 16 July 1892. bur. Bournemouth cemet. 20 July. Leisure Hour, xx 248, 782, portrait.
MC GREGOR, John Alexander Paul. b. 1780; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, major 12 July 1814; lieut.-col. commandant 22 N.I. 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1 Nov. 1830; military auditor general 1830 to 1845; col. of 37 N.I. 1 Nov. 1830, of 61 N.I. 1833, of 28 N.I. 1836 to 27 Aug. 1847, of 54 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 7 Sussex place, Hyde park gardens, London 5 March 1868.
MACGREGOR, John Murray. b. 12 May 1819; entered Madras army 1 March 1838; engaged in important operations in Central India 1842 and 1843; served during the Indian mutiny; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. d. 17 Castle hill avenue, Folkestone 18 Dec. 1891.
MACGREGOR, Robert. b. Ardchattan, Bonar near Oban, Argyleshire 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1842; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1833; superintendent and apothecary in Glasgow royal infirmary, where his investigations into nature of diabetes acquired for him an European reputation, then physician; fellow of faculty of physicians and surgeons, Glasgow 1837; lecturer on chemistry in Portland street school of medicine; physician to Glasgow royal infirmary to death; author of An enquiry into the state of urea in healthy and diseased urine and the formation of sugar in diabetes 1836. d. 93 West Regent st. Glasgow 20 March 1855. bur. Ardchattan 29 March. Glasgow Medical Journal, iii 126–8 (1856).
M’GRIGOR, Alexander Bennet. b. 1827; head of firm of M’Grigor, Donald and Co. writers, 172 St. Vincent st. Glasgow; he carried through parliament scheme for city of Glasgow Union railway 1863–4; connected with speedy liquidation of City of Glasgow bank, originated the Assets company by means of which the creditors of the bank were promptly paid off; member of supreme court of univ. of Glasgow; one of the most prominent citizens of Glasgow; author of Contributions towards an index of passages on the topography of Jerusalem 1876; The British parliament, its history and functions 1887. d. Glasgow 22 March 1891.
MC GRIGOR, Sir James (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of Aberdeen, merchant, d. 1800). b. Lethendrey in Strathspey, Invernesshire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793; surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805; inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812, retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815, retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chatham; K.T.S.; baronet 30 Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow 25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821 to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death; author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from India 1804; A letter to the commissioners on military enquiry 1808. d. 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. The autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor (1861), portrait; Munk’s Royal college of physicians, iii 309–13 (1878); Illustrated news of the world, i 204 (1858), portrait; Proc. Royal society, ix 532–34 (1858); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv (1840), portrait.
MC GRIGOR, James (son of Charles Mc Grigor, barrackmaster at Nottingham, d. 1841). b. 1819; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 24 Feb. 1835, captain 24 Jany. 1845, most courageously disarmed his regiment for mutiny 16 Sep. 1857 for which he received the thanks of the government; major of 30 Bombay N.I. 20 July 1858; lieut.-col. 15 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to death; drowned while bathing at Aden 28 June 1863.
MC GUFFOG, Samuel. M.D. Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1804; licentiate of college of physicians 5 Dec. 1814; physician to the English embassy at Constantinople, April 1816 to death. d. Constantinople 15 June 1856. Munk’s Royal college of physicians, iii 129 (1878).
MC GUIRE, John Heron. b. Ireland; C. of St. Ann’s, Manchester; V. of St. Luke’s, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1843–57; a great opponent of the Unitarians and the Roman Catholics. d. Taymouth terrace, Stepney, London 22 Feb. 1860. J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 170–74.
MC HAFFIE, James. b. 1777; 2 lieut. 21 foot 7 Sep. 1797, captain 24 Aug. 1804 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. d. Torhousemuir house, Wigtonshire 22 Nov. 1865.