James Macnaughton MacGregor (6 January 1829 – 8 October 1894) was a Scottish and New Zealand Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was born in

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on 6 January 1829. (Callander is now in the Stirling council area.)

Service in Scotland

After serving in

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(1856–1861) and Paisley (1861–1868) as a minister in the

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, he was elected and succeeded Professor

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as the Chair of Systematic Theology at

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With family to New Zealand

In 1881, MacGregor and his family migrated to New Zealand after 13 years in that chair in Edinburgh. He carried on his ministry in

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until he died there in 1894. A son,

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(1862–1934), became

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in 1920.

References

External links

Death registration index, including the middle name
1829 births 1894 deaths New Zealand theologians New Zealand Presbyterians People from Perthshire People from Oamaru Scottish emigrants to New Zealand {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub