William MacGregor

Sir William MacGregor GCMG CB, PC ( born October 20, 1846 in Towie, Scotland, † July 3, 1919 in Berwickshire ) was an Anglo- Scottish physician and politician.

Life

He was the son of farmer John MacGregor and his wife Agnes, daughter of William Smith of Pitprone. He attended school Tilly Duke and worked as a farm laborer by his headmaster and the country doctor, the MacGregor encouraged if his talents, he attended Aberdeen Grammar School and enrolled in 1867 at the University of Aberdeen in. In 1872 he passed the medical exam and received his doctorate in 1874. MacGregor also studied at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. He then became an assistant - physician at the Royal Mental Hospital in Aberdeen.

He married in 1883 Mary Jane, daughter of Captain Cocks, and had with her ​​a son and three daughters. The southeastern part of the island of New Guinea was declared on November 6, 1884 by Great Britain to the British Protectorate of New Guinea (British New Guinea) and annexed on September 4, 1888. First British administrator was William MacGregor. On December 2, 1909 MacGregor was appointed Governor of Queensland.

He was the co-founder of the University of Queensland, allocating the Old Government House, the official residence of the first Governors of Queensland, available. He became the first Chancellor of the University. MacGregor also served as President of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland.

In 1914 MacGregor retired and returned to Scotland. After a gallstone surgery, he died on July 3, 1919 and was buried next to his parents in the cemetery of his birthplace Towie.

Others

He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Queensland.

Two suburbs in Australia are named after him, Macgregor in Brisbane and Macgregor in Canberra.