Rear-Admiral Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor of Macgregor, 4th Baronet, JP (29 August 1834 – 31 August 1879) was a Scottish

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and senior

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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

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of Clan Gregor in 1841, and his wife Mary Charlotte (died 1896), youngest daughter of co-heiress of Rear-Admiral Sir

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. Among his siblings was Sir Evan Macgregor (1842–1926), a civil servant who was Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty from 1884 to 1907.

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, ''

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'', vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900), p. 303. Murray-Macgregor succeeded to the baronetcy and the chieftaincy on his father's death on 11 May 1851;"Death of Sir Malcolm Macgregor of Macgregor"
''Dundee Evening Telegraph'', 1 September 1879, p. 3. Sir John had arrived in the

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less two months earlier to take up his appointment as the colony's

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. Meanwhile, Murray-Macgregor had embarked on a career in the

; having joined the service in 1847, he was commissioned as a

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in 1854 and served at Sebastopol (1854–55) during the

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, receiving the

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. He was promoted to

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in 1856 and took command of HMS ''Harrier'' in 1858. Four years later, he was promoted to

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. In 1869, he was awarded a medal by the

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for saving the life of a seaman who had been drowning off the West coast of Africa. In 1875, he was placed on the retired list and in 1878 was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. He was not active politically, but held a number of offices in

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, where he was a magistrate, a commissioner of supply and chairman of the School and Parochial Boards. Murray-Macgregor died on 31 August 1879 at Edinchip, aged 45; he had been in ill health for 18 months. He was survived by his wife, Lady Helen Laura, daughter of Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim, 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).''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage'' (1973), p. 1763. A photograph of Murray-Macgregor by

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(1860) is in the

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's collections
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