| William Macgregor | |
| Country: | Australia |
| Birth Date: | 23 February 1888 |
| Birth Place: | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
| Death Place: | Benalla, Victoria |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 4 |
| Runs1: | 50 |
| Bat Avg1: | 16.66 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 35 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 5/4 |
| Date: | 4 July 2016 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16367/16367.html Cricket Archive |
William Macgregor (23 February 1888 – 5 October 1980) was an Australian cricketer, veterinarian and grazier.
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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
MacGregor married May Dare in Hampstead, London, in November 1916.[4] 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.[5] [6] In March 1951 he married Kathleen Cadwallader in Melbourne.[7]
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.[8] [9] He died in Benalla in October 1980.[10]