William Macgregor (cricketer)

William Macgregor (23 February 1888 – 5 October 1980) was an Australian cricketer, veterinarian and grazier.

William Macgregor
Personal information
Born(1888-02-23)23 February 1888
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Died5 October 1980(1980-10-05) (aged 92)
Benalla, Victoria
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 4
Runs scored 50
Batting average 16.66
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 35
Catches/stumpings 5/4
Source: Cricket Archive, 4 July 2016

Life and career

A wicket-keeper, Macgregor played four games of first-class cricket for the Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1913–14, including one against New Zealand.[1] He never played first-class cricket in Australia. Apart from this tour, his cricket career consisted of several seasons with University in the Melbourne competition.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne as a Licentiate in Veterinary Science in 1915.[2] He served with the Australian Army Veterinary Corps as a captain in World War I, leaving Australia in November 1915 and returning in January 1919. He was twice mentioned in despatches.[3]

MacGregor married May Dare in Hampstead, London, in November 1916.[4] They had one son. He bought and ran a grazing property, Tatong Estate, at Tatong in north-eastern Victoria, while his wife stayed in Melbourne. She divorced him in 1933 on the grounds of desertion.[5][6] In March 1951 he married Kathleen Cadwallader in Melbourne.[7]

MacGregor served as a councillor on the Benalla Shire Council from the 1930s to the 1950s, and was Shire President in the 1930s and 1940s.[8][9] He died in Benalla in October 1980.[10]

References
  1. "New Zealand v Australia 1913-14". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  2. The University of Melbourne, Veterinary School Prospectus 1918, Melbourne, 1918, p. 21.
  3. AIF Project: William Macgregor
  4. "Marriages". The Argus: 1. 27 January 1917.
  5. "Divorce Decrees Granted". The Herald: 10. 31 July 1933.
  6. "MacGregor v MacGregor 1933". Ancestry.com.au. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  7. "Personalities". Benalla Ensign: 9. 8 March 1951.
  8. "Cr. MacGregor Reappointed President". Benalla Ensign: 5. 13 September 1940.
  9. "Cr. Coish Resigns". Benalla Ensign: 10. 12 August 1954.
  10. "William MacGregor". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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