MC GRIGOR

Sir James (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of Aberdeen, merchant, d. 1800). b. Lethendrey in Strathspey, Inverne hire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793; surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805; inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812, retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815, retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chas am; K.T.S.; baronet 30 Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow 25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821 to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death; author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from India 1804; A letter to the commi ioners on military enquiry 1808. d. 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. The autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor (1861), portrait ; Munk’s Royal college of physicians , iii 309–13 (1878); Illustrated news of the world , i 204 (1858), portrait ; Proc. Royal society , ix 532–34 (1858); Petti grew’s Medical portrait gallery , iv (1840), portrait .