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Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet

1834 – 1879

Scottish baronet and senior Royal Navy officer

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Lived 1834 – 1879 (aged 45). Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet was a military personnel.

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 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. His father inherited the title and the chieftaincy of Clan Gregor in 1841.

His mother was the youngest daughter, of co-heiress, of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy. Sir John had arrived in the British Virgin Islands less two months earlier to take up his appointment as the colony's president. Meanwhile, Murray-Macgregor had embarked on a career in the Royal Navy; having joined the service in 1847, Four years later, he was promoted to captain. 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.

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.

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; he had been in ill health for 18 months.

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Rear-Admiral Sir Malcolm Mac Gregor of Mac Gregor, 4th Bt., Commander Malcolm McGregor, Malcolm McGregor, Malcolm MacGregor

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Who was Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet?

Scottish baronet and senior Royal Navy officer

When was Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet born?

Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet was born on 29 August 1834.

When did Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet die?

Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet died on 31 August 1879.

What was Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet's occupation?

Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet was a military personnel.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Malcolm Murray-Macgregor, 4th Baronet

· Wikidata: Q75280815

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