Donald Robert Macgregor (1824 – 9 December 1889) was a

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politician. From 1874 to 1878 he was a

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(MP) for the Leith Burghs constituency, near

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. He was born in

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and later moved to

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where he lived at 13

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as an insurance agent. He later became a merchant and steamship owner in Leith. He was Colonel of the Leith Volunteer Corps, 1st Midlothian Rifles, in succession to Col. Henry Arnaud HEICS.

Family

He was married to Mary Anderson.1871 census: Edinburgh

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* 1824 births 1889 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 Scottish Liberal Party MPs {{Scotland-Liberal-UK-MP-stub