Sir William Macgregor, 2nd Baronet (1817 – 29 March 1846) was a British Army officer. The eldest son of the physician Sir Patrick Macgregor, 1st Baronet, he succeeded him in his baronetcy in 1828. On 20 March 1835, he purchased an

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. On 29 March 1839, he purchased a lieutenancy in the regiment. Macgregor fought in the

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, and fell ill from

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at the

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. He was promoted captain shortly thereafter, on 22 July, to replace Captain Collinson, killed at the battle. He later returned to China overland before fully recovering from his sunstroke, to which cause his death was attributed. On 19 April 1844, he exchanged into the

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. Macgregor died at

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in 1846. He was attended by his brother-in-law, the Rev.

Joseph Sortain Joseph Sortain (1809–1860) was a British Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist minister, an evangelical Independent, philosophy tutor at Cheshunt College, and biographer of Francis Bacon. A reputed preacher of his time, he was called "th ...

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