John MacGregor

A portrait included in ‘Modern Gaelic Bards’, ed. Malcolm C. MacLeod (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1908).

Col. John MacGregor | Iain MacGhrioghair (24 February 1848, Sandwick, Lewis – 13 Jan 1932, Kingston upon Thames) served in the medical corps in India. His poetry and songs appeared in the collection Luinneagan Luaineach (1897). He also wrote in English and published a study of Gaelic phraseology.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

An Sgeulaiche

  • ‘An Siubhail Cruaidh’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 1 (Spring 1910)
  • ‘Tog Orm a’ Phìob’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 3 (Autumn 1910)

Resources

  • Lachlan MacBean (ed.), ‘MacGregor, John’ The Celtic Who’s Who (Kirkcaldy: The Fifeshire Advertiser, 1921)
  • Malcolm C. MacLeod (ed.), ‘John MacGregor,’ Modern Gaelic Bards (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1908)
  • Derick Thomson, ‘MacGregor, John’, The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Glasgow: Gairm, 1994)