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Australian cricketer and veterinarian

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

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

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. 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. 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.

MacGregor married May Dare in Hampstead, London, in November 1916. 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. In March 1951 he married Kathleen Cadwallader in Melbourne.

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. He died in Benalla in October 1980.

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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