George Murray Macgregor

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(21 January 1884 – 21 January 1966) was a Scottish geologist. He was described as "Scotland's most eminent coalfield geologist."

Life

Macgregor was born in

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to Agnes Murray and George Macgregor. He studied at the

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graduating in 1908 with a MA BSc. He joined HM Geological Survey and worked there for his entire career. In 1921, he succeeded

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as District Geologist for the Scottish coalfields. In 1922, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, and Robert Campbell. In 1925, he became Assistant Director for Scotland. The University of Glasgow awarded him an

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(DSc) in 1931. In 1926 he succeeded George Walter Tyrrell as President of the Geological Society of Glasgow. He was succeeded in turn by James Ernest Richey. He won the

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in 1945. He retired in the autumn of 1945 and was succeeded at the HM Geological Survey by Talbot Whitehead. He died in Glasgow on 21 January 1966. He did not marry and had no children.

References

1884 births 1966 deaths Scottish geologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish non-fiction writers {{UK-geologist-stub