Charles Robert Macgillivray

Charles Robert Macgillivray (1804?–1867) was a Scottish physician and Gaelic scholar.

He received his elementary education at the school of his native parish, and when about twenty went to Glasgow, where he found employment in a druggist's shop.

MacGillivray was an enthusiastic Gaelic scholar, and assisted Dr. Norman Macleod with his publications.

In 1868 he published a Gaelic grammar, but his best-known work is a translation of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' (1869), in which he was helped by Archibald Macfadyen the hymn-writer.

He also translated parts of John Howie's 'Scotch Biography' into Gaelic, published in London in 1870–3.