Donald Forbes Macgregor (23 July 1939 – 3 June 2020)[1] was a Scottish long-distance runner, teacher and politician.
He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, representing Great Britain in the men's marathon event, in which he finished in seventh position in 2:16:34.
[citation needed] He was principal teacher of German in Madras College, St Andrews from 1974[4] until 1999, when he retired from full-time teaching.
[citation needed] Until 2006 he taught French and German part-time in the Business School of the University of Abertay Dundee and was also a German-language tour guide.
More recently Donald was involved in research for John Bryant's books 3:59.4 (2004 – Random House) and The Marathon Makers (2008 – John Blake Publishing) and in photo caption translations for German books about the 2006 World Cup and 2008 Olympic Games.