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Official Obit from the
Dundee Courier, dated Tuesday, 1st April 2003.
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Death of Brigadier Sir Gregor MacGregor
Brigadier Sir Gregor MacGregor of MacGregor, 6th Baronet and 23rd Chief of
Clan Gregor, has died at the age of 78.
Sir Gregor, who is
succeeded by his son Major Malcolm MacGregor, died in Ninewells Hospital,
Dundee, on Sunday after a short illness. He lived at the family home
Bannatyne, at Newtyle.
Born in Edinburgh in 1925,
the son of Captain Sir Malcolm MacGregor and Gylla Lady MacGregor of
MacGregor OBE, he was educated at Eton and was commissioned in the Scots
Guards in 1944.
He saw active service in
north-west Europe during the second world war and later served in
Palestine, Malaya and Borneo, and was also a member of the Royal Company
of Archers (Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland).
He was also Brigade Major,
16th Parachute Brigade and rose through the ranks to become Commanding
Officer, 1st Battalion Scots Guards and Lt. Colonel commanding Scots
Guards.
Following a two-year spell
at Fort Benning in the USA, Sir Gregor became Defence and Military Attache
at the British Embassy in Athens between 1975 and 1978, before becoming
Commander of the regiment's Lowlands Battalion, based at Edinburgh Castle
until 1980.
In his civilian life he was
also Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1988-93.
Since becoming clan chief
in 1958, Sir Gregor had travelled extensively to MacGregor gatherings, in
particular to America and Canada, and was seen as a guiding hand to the
clan throughout his tenure.
In 1975 he oversaw the
200th anniversary of the lifting of the Act of Proscription, imposed in
1693 by William of Orange, which outlawed the clan name. The Act was
finally repealed in 1775.
Sir Gregor is also survived
by his wife Fanny and younger son Ninian. |
