1910-11.] 
Obituary Notices. 
693 
The Very Rev. James MacGregor, D.D., one of 
His Majesty’s Chaplains. 
(Read November 6, 1911.) 
Dr MacGregor was born near Scone in 1832. Entering the University of 
St Andrews when fifteen years of age, he studied there till 1855 ; and such 
was the distinction of his career, that in the same year he was appointed 
to the important benefice of the High Church of Paisley. Afterwards in 
Glasgow, and later in Edinburgh, he devoted himself with characteristic 
energy and eloquence to the work of a parish minister, and it is, perhaps, 
as Minister of the Parish Church of St Cuthbert in this city that he will 
be longest remembered. In 1891 the General Assembly of the Church of 
Scotland called him to the Moderator’s chair, in recognition, not only of his 
work as a preacher and pastor, but also as a philanthropist. He was elected 
Fellow of the Society in 1886. He died on November 25, 1910. A scholarly 
man and a great preacher, whose eloquence never wearied in pulpit or on 
platform in the cause of the moral welfare of his country, his memory is 
at once a pride and an incentive. 
