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Gregor MacGregor (sportsman)

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and captained the county club between 1898 and 1907. He was extremely modest of his capabilities as a batsman, but was a very difficult batsman to dig out. MacGregor later served as the treasurer, before his death in 1919, aged 49.
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He is commemorated at Cambridge, as the first Scottish cricket Blue to play international cricket, in the Hone-MacGregor Trophy: a triangular tournament between Cambridge University, Irish Universities and Scottish Universities.
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MacGregor also played in the Home Nations Championship in 1891 and 1893, missing the 1892 tournament as he was out in Australia with Lord Sheffield's cricket team in 1892, and in 1894 he played against
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against Oxford, showing himself a fine tackler and a very accurate kick. In the same season that he first appeared for Cambridge, he was also awarded his first international cap.
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in 1927 by W.H. Patterson, a MCC committee member. The identity of the artist of the oil painting was only reaffirmed in 2018. The picture regularly hangs in the
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MacGregor also wrote about rugby. For example, he contributed a chapter titled "Full Back Play" to a book by
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MacGregor was born in 1869 to Donald MacGregor J.P. of Argyll in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was schooled at
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in all four years at Cambridge. He made first-class appearances for a number of teams, including
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MacGregor, middle row, seated far left with the Jesus College XV in 1889
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matches between 1888 and 1907. He made his first-class debut for
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to appear for Scotland in all three international matches of the
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Scotland international rugby union player & England cricketer
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Also in that Middlesex side were the Wales international player
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in October 1887. On leaving university, he found work on the
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Jessop, G.L. (3 September 1921). "My Reminiscences".
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between 1890 and 1896. MacGregor was selected by the
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