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Born | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia | 23 February 1888||||||||||||||
Died | 5 October 1980 Benalla, Victoria | (aged 92)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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Cricket Archive, 4 July 2016 |
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]
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Born | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia | 23 February 1888||||||||||||||
Died | 5 October 1980 Benalla, Victoria | (aged 92)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricket Archive, 4 July 2016 |
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]