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Authorised form of nameMacGregor; James Gordon (1852 - 1913)
Dates1852 - 1913
Date of birth31 March 1852
Date of death21/05/1913
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Lond), 1876; MA (Dalh)
Career:
Science Master, Clifton College, Bristol (1877-1879); moved to Edinburgh
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/06/1900
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1913-1914 vol 89 pp xxvi-xxviii signed by J A E
References:
Sir Brian Pippard, FRS, 'Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign for science education' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 63-81, plate
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
N R Ingram, 'All that you can't leave behind' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 177-184
CodeNA1672
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1900/09MacGregor, James Gordon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/22/430Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Gordon] MacGregor, Fellow of the Royal Society14 May 1901
NLB/30/70Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Gordon MacGregor, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1905
RR/16/393Referee's report by James Gordon MacGregor, on a paper 'The halogen hydrides as conducting solvents, parts I, II, III, and IV' by D McIntosh, Bertram Dillon Steele, and E H Archibald25 February 1905
MC/19/590Letter from [James Gordon] MacGregor, 6 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 September 1904
MC/19/591Letter from [James Gordon] MacGregor, 6 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society17 November 1904
MC/25/155Letter from [James Gordon] Macgregor, 24 Darlymple Crescent, Edinburgh, to the [Assistant] Secretary, Royal Society, London17 November 1910
NLB/43/208Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Gordon] MacGregor, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1910
MC/20/155Letter from [James Gordon] MacGregor, 6 Chalrmers Crescent, Edinburgh, to the Asiistant Secretary of the Royal Society24 January 1905
MC/20/154Letter from [James Gordon] MacGregor, 6 Chalrmers Crescent, Edinburgh, to the Asiistant Secretary of the Royal Society[16 January 1905]
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
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