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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.

Early life

Born on 29 August 1834, Malcolm Murray-Macgregor was the eldest son of Sir John Atholl Bannatyne Murray-Macgregor, 3rd Baronet (1810–1851), and the former Mary Charlotte Hardy (d. 1896). Among his siblings was Sir Evan Macgregor, a civil servant who was

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from 1884 to 1907. G. E. Cokayne, '' The Complete Baronetage'', vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900), p. 303. His father inherited the title and the

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in 1841. His mother was the youngest daughter, of co-heiress, of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy.

Career

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 Crimean Medal. 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

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. 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.

Personal life

On 26 October 1864, Sir Malcom married Lady Helen Laura McDonnell, daughter of Hugh McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim and Lady Laura Parker (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Macclesfield). Together, they were the parents of five children: * Malvina Charlotte Murray-Macgregor (1865–1924), who married Hon. Granville William Richard Somerset, son of

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and Lady Georgiana Lygon (daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp), in 1892. * Margaret Helen Mary Murray-Macgregor (1867–1933), who married Alan Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield, son of William David Murray,

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and Emily Louisa Macgregor, in 1899. * Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 5th Baronet (1873–1958), who was a Royal Navy officer who married Hon. Gylla Rollo, daughter of Hon. Eric Norman Rollo, in 1925. * Mariel Alpina Murray-Macgregor (1875–1967), who married Ernest Pendleton Magruder, son of Caleb Clarke Magruder Jr. in 1911. * Alexander Ronald Murray-Macgregor (1878–1960), who married Gertrude Blanche Murray, daughter of Charles Archibald Murray, in 1907.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. A photograph of Murray-Macgregor by

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(1860) is in the

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's collections
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. Sir Malcom died on 31 August 1879 at Edinchip, aged 45; he had been in ill health for 18 months.

References

External links

Sir Malcolm MacGregor, 4th Bt (1834-1879), Naval officer
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