Modern English biography

Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations 5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian and Ottoman empires 1851; The history of the British empire from James I. 2 vols. 1852; one of the founders of Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, a director, chairman of the board, and the governor, advanced to himself £13,700 all of which except £700 became a bad debt, bank failed 3 Sep. 1856 and all the shareholders were ruined; escaped trial and imprisonment by his death at Boulogne 23 April 1857. _D. Morier Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859) 268–390; _I.L.N. xii_ 75 (1848), _portrait_. MAC GREGOR, SIR JOHN (2 son of Duncan Mac Andrew of Culross, Perthshire). _b._ 20 Oct. 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of army as hospital assistant 27 June 1809; inspector general of hospitals 28 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the queen 16 Aug. 1859; K.C.B. 10 June 1859; took by r.l. name of Mac Gregor instead of Mac Andrew 24 July 1863. _d._ Corstorphine lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 13 Jany. 1866. 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.