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MODERN GAELIC BARDS.
LIEUT.-COLONEL JOHN MACGREGOR. m.d..
THE BARD OF CLAN ALPINE.
DURING the long persecution of the Clan
Macgregor after the battle of Glenfruin, when
they were unjustly outlawed and their name
forbidden to be borneunderpenaltyof death, John
Macgregor, of the Macgregors of Glengyle, Perthshire,
found his way to Carloway, on the west coast of the
island of Lewis, and settled there. Lieut.-Colonel John
Macgregor, M.D., the subject of the present sketch, is
the great-great-grandson of this refugee, of whom he is
the present representative, and of the Macgregors in
Lewis, as well as honorary bard to his ancient and
royal Clan.
He is the youngest and only surviving son of the late
John Macgregor and Janet Macdonald, Stornoway ; was
educated at Stornoway, the Glasgow University, by
private tuition in London, and at the Royal Army
Medical College, Netley. From this last institution he
passed first-class into the Indian Medical Service, and
was promoted to his present rank first on his list in his
Presidency, shortly after which he retired.
He has had various important Government appoint-
ments, has acted as Professor of Materia Medica and