William MacGregor

Sir William MacGregor GCMG CB , PC (born October 20, 1846 in Towie , Scotland , † July 3, 1919 in Berwickshire ) was a British - Scottish doctor and politician.

Life

He was the son of the farmer John MacGregor and his wife Agnes, daughter of William Smith of Pitprone. He attended the Tillyduke school and initially worked as a farm worker . Through his headmaster and country doctor, MacGregor encouraged his talents, he attended Aberdeen Grammar School and enrolled at the University of Aberdeen in 1867 . In 1872 he passed the medical exam and received his doctorate in 1874. MacGregor also studied at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh . He then became an assistant doctor at the Royal Mental Hospital in Aberdeen .

In 1883 he married Mary Jane, daughter of Captain Cocks, and had a son and three daughters with her. The south-east of the island of New Guinea was declared a Protectorate of British New Guinea by Great Britain on November 6, 1884 and annexed on September 4, 1888. The first British administrator was William MacGregor. On December 2, 1909, MacGregor was appointed governor of Queensland .

He was the co-founder of the University of Queensland and provided the Old Government House , the first official residence of the Queensland Governors, available. He became the university's first chancellor. MacGregor was also President of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland .

In 1914 MacGregor retired and returned to Scotland. After a gallstone operation, he died on July 3, 1919 and was buried next to his parents in the cemetery of his birthplace, Towie.

At his request, the lobe honey eater was named after his wife.

Others

He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge , Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Queensland.

Two suburbs in Australia are named after him, Macgregor near Brisbane and Macgregor near Canberra .

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Individual evidence

Queensland Governors

personal data
SURNAME	MacGregor, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MacGregor, Sir William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 20, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Towie , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1919
Place of death	Berwickshire

[1] Australian Dictionary of Biography

[2] ttp://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogMc.html#macgregor1