Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, 4th Baronet
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.
Early life[edit]
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 Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty from 1884 to 1907.[1] His father inherited the title and the chieftaincy of Clan Gregor in 1841.[2]
His mother was the youngest daughter, of co-heiress, of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy.[1]
Career[edit]
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 retired list[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]
Personal life[edit]
On 26 October 1864, Sir Malcom married Lady Helen Laura, daughter of Hugh McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim and Lady Laura Parker (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Macclesfield),[1] and by five children:[7]
- Malvina Charlotte Murray-Macgregor (1865–1924), who married Hon. Granville William Richard Somerset, son of Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan and Lady Georgiana Lygon (daughter of the 4th Earl Beauchamp), in 1892.[1]
- Margaret Helen Mary Murray-Macgregor (1867–1933), who married Alan Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield, son of William David Murray, Viscount Stormont and Emily Louisa Mac Gregor, in 1899.[1]
- 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.[1]
- Mariel Alpina Murray-Macgregor (1875–1967), who married Ernest Pendleton Magruder, son of Caleb Clarke Magruder Jr. in 1911.[1]
- Alexander Ronald Murray-Macgregor (1878–1960), who married Gertrude Blanche Murray, daughter of Charles Archibald Murray, in 1907.[8]
A photograph of Murray-Macgregor by Camille Silvy (1860) is in the National Portrait Gallery's collections (NPG Ax50422).
Sir Malcom died on 31 August 1879 at Edinchip, aged 45;[1] he had been in ill health for 18 months.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, vol. 6 (Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., 1900), p. 303.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e "Death of Sir Malcolm Macgregor of Macgregor", Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1 September 1879, p. 3.
- ^ "Sir John A. B. M. Macgregor, Bart.", The Gentleman's Magazine, new series, vol. 36, part 2 (July–December 1851), p. 196.
- ^ Robert P. Dod, The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1863 (London: Whittaker and Co., 1863), p. 390.
- ^ The London Gazette, 15 March 1878 (issue 24563), p. 2011.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage (1973), p. 1763.
- ^ 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.
