Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor KC was a British lawyer and judge.
16 Facts About Atholl MacGregor
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Atholl MacGregor served as Attorney General in a number of British colonies in the early 20th century.
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Atholl MacGregor was Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1933 to 1945.
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Atholl MacGregor attended the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an MA, followed by Lincoln College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA.
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Atholl MacGregor was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1909.
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Atholl MacGregor married, in 1919, Gertrude Mary, the youngest daughter of Mr R Brandon Tasker of Marino, Caernarfon in North Wales.
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Atholl MacGregor served as assistant district commissioner of Southern Nigeria from 1912 to 1914.
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Atholl MacGregor was transferred to Trinidad in 1926 and then to Kenya in 1929.
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Atholl MacGregor was made a King's Counsel in 1927 while serving in Trinidad.
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In 1933 Atholl MacGregor was appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong in succession to Joseph Horsford Kemp.
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Atholl MacGregor was made a Commander of the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in 1940.
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Atholl MacGregor was interned by the Japanese in Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945.
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Atholl MacGregor survived the war, but contracted beriberi in the camp.
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Atholl MacGregor was carried on to the first hospital ship, the Highland Monarch, leaving Hong Kong for England.
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Atholl MacGregor died on 30 October 1945 before reaching the Suez and was buried at sea.
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Atholl MacGregor is memorialised on his parents' grave in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh.