Donald MacGillivray

Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray (22 September 1906 – 24 December 1966) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as the last British high commissioner in Malaya.

Early life and education MacGillivray was born in 1906, the son of Edinburgh barrister Evan James MacGillivray, and Maud Hamilton Turcan. He was educated at Sherborne School and Trinity College, Oxford. He earned a B.A. in 1928. He was selected for the Colonial Administrative Service in 1929 and was posted to Tanganyika. He earned his M.A. from Trinity College in 1932. However, Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos selected MacGillivray to serve as deputy high commissioner to General Sir Gerald Templer British High Commissioner in Malaya, where a state of emergency existed.

Works A Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect (1898)