| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | |
| Office: | Secretary of State for Transport |
| Primeminister: | John Major |
| Term Start: | 11 April 1992 |
| Term End: | 20 July 1994 |
| Predecessor: | Malcolm Rifkind |
| Successor: | Brian Mawhinney |
| Office2: | Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council |
| Primeminister2: | Margaret Thatcher John Major |
| Term Start2: | 2 November 1990 |
| Term End2: | 11 April 1992 |
| Predecessor2: | Geoffrey Howe |
| Successor2: | Tony Newton |
| Office3: | Secretary of State for Education and Science |
| Primeminister3: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start3: | 24 July 1989 |
| Term End3: | 2 November 1990 |
| Predecessor3: | Kenneth Baker |
| Successor3: | Kenneth Clarke |
| Office4: | Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| Primeminister4: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start4: | 13 June 1987 |
| Term End4: | 24 July 1989 |
| Predecessor4: | Michael Jopling |
| Successor4: | John Gummer |
| Office5: | Chief Secretary to the Treasury |
| Primeminister5: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start5: | 2 September 1985 |
| Term End5: | 13 June 1987 |
| Predecessor5: | Peter Rees |
| Successor5: | John Major |
| Office6: | Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury |
| Primeminister6: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start6: | 4 May 1979 |
| Term End6: | 5 January 1981 |
| Office7: | Member of Parliament for South Norfolk |
| Term Start7: | 28 February 1974 |
| Term End7: | 14 May 2001 |
| Predecessor7: | John Hill |
| Successor7: | Richard Bacon |
| Birth Date: | 14 February 1937 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | University of St Andrews King's College London |
John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, (born 14 February 1937), is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Norfolk from 1974 to 2001. He served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1985–87), Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1987–89), Secretary of State for Education and Science (1989–90), Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council (1990–92), and Secretary of State for Transport (1992–94). He was made a life peer in 2001.
MacGregor was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh,[1] then at the University of St Andrews (MA economics and history, 1959) and at King's College London (LLB, 1962). Prior to the 1979 general election he worked for Hill Samuel, a merchant bank.[2]
MacGregor became an MP at the February 1974 General Election,[3] and served as a Tory whip from 1977 to 1981, when he became a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, moving to MAFF in 1983.
MacGregor entered the Cabinet on 2 September 1985 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and was made Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1987 – during the BSE crisis. He was promoted to Secretary of State for Education and Science in July 1989. In the small reshuffle following the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe, he was made Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council just days before Thatcher's own resignation. He continued in this position from 1990 to 1992, although William Keegan writes that he was a contender for the position of Chancellor when John Major came to power.[4]
MacGregor was appointed Secretary of State for Transport in 1992, remaining in the post until July 1994 when was dismissed from the cabinet. His time as Transport Secretary saw him given responsibility for the privatisation of British Rail and the decision to privatise the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL).[5] He was made a life peer as Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, of Pulham Market in the County of Norfolk on 5 July 2001.[6] He sat in the House of Lords until his retirement on 26 July 2019.[7]
MacGregor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1971 New Year Honours for political services.
| Escutcheon: | Argent a sword in bend Azure hilted and pommelled Or surmounted by an oak tree eradicated and fructed Proper its trunk enfiled with five antique crowns of the third on a chief per pale Vert and Gules two portcullises chains pendent of the third. |
| Crest: | A boar rampant Azure armed langued and crined Or bearing a lyre Or stringed Argent.[8] |
| Supporters: | A stag Gules bearing a magician's wand Sable tipped Argent and having about its neck a chain from which is pendent a money purse Or sinister a winged lion guardant Or also bearing a magicians's wand Sable tipped Argent and having about its neck a chain from which is pendent a close book Gules. |
| Motto: | To Thyself Aye True |
MacGregor is an accomplished magician and member of the Magic Circle. His passion for magic started when he was given a conjuring set at the age of 11. He gave regular performances on British television, including guest spots on The Best of Magic and an annual children's charity programme on Anglia Television.[9]
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