Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, 4th Baronet

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Rear-Admiral Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor of Macgregor, 4th Baronet, JP (29 August 1834 – 31 August 1879) was a Scottish baronet and senior Royal Navy officer.

Born on 29 August 1834, Malcolm Murray-Macgregor was the eldest son of Sir John Atholl Bannatyne Murray-Macgregor, 3rd Baronet (1810–1851), who would inherit the title and the chieftaincy of Clan Gregor in 1841, and his wife Mary Charlotte (died 1896), youngest daughter of co-heiress of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy. Among his siblings was Sir Evan Macgregor (1842–1926), a civil servant who was Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty from 1884 to 1907.[1][2]

Murray-Macgregor succeeded to the baronetcy and the chieftaincy on his father's death on 11 May 1851;[1][3] Sir John had arrived in the British Virgin Islands less two months earlier to take up his appointment as the colony's president.[4] Meanwhile, Murray-Macgregor had embarked on a career in the Royal Navy; having joined the service in 1847,[3] he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1854 and served at Sebastopol (1854–55) during the Crimean War, receiving the Crimean Medal. He was promoted to Commander in 1856[1] and took command of HMS Harrier in 1858.[5] Four years later, he was promoted to Captain.[1] In 1869, he was awarded a medal by the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a seaman who had been drowning off the West coast of Africa.[3] In 1875, he was placed on the [1] and in 1878 was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral.[6] He was not active politically, but held a number of offices in Perthshire, where he was a magistrate, a commissioner of supply and chairman of the School and Parochial Boards.[3]

Murray-Macgregor died on 31 August 1879 at Edinchip, aged 45;[1] he had been in ill health for 18 months.[3] He was survived by his wife, Lady Helen Laura, daughter of Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim,[1] and by five children: Malvina Charlotte (born 1865), who married Granville William Richard Somerset, son of the 2nd Baron Raglan; Margaret Helen Mary (born 1867); Malcolm (1873–1958), who was a Royal Navy officer and succeeded to the baronetcy; Mariel Alpina (born 1876); and Alexander Ronald (1878–1960).[7][8] A photograph of Murray-Macgregor by Camille Silvy (1860) is in the National Portrait Gallery's collections (NPG Ax50422).

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900), p. 303.
  2. ^ V. W. Baddeley, revised by Andrew Lambert, "MacGregor, Sir Evan", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, September 2004). Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Death of Sir Malcolm Macgregor of Macgregor", Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1 September 1879, p. 3.
  4. ^ "Sir John A. B. M. Macgregor, Bart.", The Gentleman's Magazine, new series, vol. 36, part 2 (July–December 1851), p. 196.
  5. ^ Robert P. Dod, The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1863 (London: Whittaker and Co., 1863), p. 390.
  6. ^ The London Gazette, 15 March 1878 (issue 24563), p. 2011.
  7. ^ Bernard Burke and Ashworth P. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (1910), p. 1191.
  8. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage (1973), p. 1763.
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Lanrick)
1851–1879 		Succeeded by
Malcolm MacGregor
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