Modern English biography

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