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turned home with the regiment, and was shortly afterwards appointed 

 to the Oxford Blues, with which he did duty at Windsor for some 

 time. In 1805 he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector 

 of Hospitals, and was employed in the south-western district. At 

 Portsmouth he superintended the landing and treatment of the 

 wounded sent home from Sir John Moore's Army. In August 

 1809 he was promoted to be Inspector-General of Hospitals, and 

 in September was sent to Walcheren as Principal Medical Officer of 

 the expedition, to replace Sir J. Webb, and was highly commended 

 by Sir Eyre Coote for the manner in which he discharged his duty 

 amidst great difficulties. In the end of the year, when that un- 

 fortunate expedition had terminated, he returned to Portsmouth, 

 where he remained nearly two years. In 1811 he was sent out to 

 Spain as Principal Medical Officer of the Army under Lord 

 Wellington, and arrived in time to be present at the siege of Ciudad 

 Rodrigo. He remained with the Army till the termination of the 

 Peninsular War, and was present in every siege and engagement from 

 Ciudad Rodrigo to Toulouse. The Duke of Wellington, who was at 

 no time very lavish of his compliments to medical officers, thus notices 

 Dr. MacGrigor's services in an Order dated 26th July, 1814 : "I 

 have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which Mr. Mac- 

 Grigor conducted the department under his direction, and I consider 

 him one of the most able, industrious, and successful public servants 

 I have ever met with. 5 * 



On the termination of the war he was knighted, and received the 

 Royal permission to wear the decoration of Knight Companion of 

 the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. In 1815 he was 

 appointed Director-General of the Medical Department of the Army, 

 which post he filled till 1851, when he retired from active employ- 

 ment. In 1831 he was created a Baronet, and in 1851 was appointed 

 to be a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He died on 

 the 2nd of April, 1858, within a few days of entering his 88th year. 



Sir James MacGrigor was the auther of a " Memoir of the state 

 of health of the 88th and other Regiments at Ceylon and Bombay, 

 from 1st June 1800 to 31st May 1801 ;" of a "Medical sketch of 

 the Expedition to Egypt from India;" and of a "Sketch of the 

 Medical History of the British Army in the Peninsula of Spain and 

 Portugal during the late Campaign." 



