Brigadier-General Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet (22 December 1925 – 30 March 2003) was British Army Officer of the Scots Guards, and the son of Malcolm MacGregor, 5th Baronet. A career British Army officer he was Defence and Military Attaché to Greece between 1975 and 1978, and the 23rd Chief of Clan Gregor from 1958 until his death.
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Educated at Eton College, MacGregor served as a member of the 16th Parachute Brigade Group during the Second World War and attained the rank of Brigade Major. Between 1947 and 1948 he fought in the Palestine Campaign, then in the Malayan Emergency between 1950 and 1951. He inherited the title of 6th Baronet MacGregor upon the death of his father, and held the position of 23rd Chief of Clan Gregor in 1958. In 1965 he took part in the Borneo Campaign in 1965, and was promoted to commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards in 1966, a position he held until 1969. From 1971 to 1973 he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Scots Guards, then later as Defence and Military Attaché to Athens between 1975 and 1978. He retired from military service in 1980, with the rank of Brigadier, late of the Scots Guards, and was admitted to the Royal Company of Archers. A Freemason for many years, between 1985 and 1993 he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
In 2011 the British mercenary and former Scots Guard and SAS officer, Simon Mann upset members of Clan Gregor and MacGregor's family after publishing his autobiography in which he describes MacGregor as a "small, toxic, red-haired, farting, foul-mouthed, stentorian dragon". The book, Cry Havoc, contains Mann's account of his unsuccessful mission to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equitorial Guinea.[1]
On 8 February 1958, he married Fanny Butler and they had two children:
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| Preceded by J. M. Marcus Humphrey |
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1985–1993 |
Succeeded by The Lord Burton |