James MacGregor (minister)

James Macnaughton MacGregor (6 January 1829 – 8 October 1894) was a Scottish and New Zealand Presbyterian minister and theologian.

After serving in Barry (1856–1861) and Paisley (1861–1868) as a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, he was elected and succeeded Professor James Buchanan as the Chair of Systematic Theology at New College, Edinburgh.

In 1881, MacGregor and his family migrated to New Zealand after 13 years in that chair in Edinburgh.

[2] A son, William Cunningham MacGregor (1862–1934), became solicitor-general in 1920.

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MacGregor with family in 1862
Their house at number 8, Eden Lane, Morningside; image from Geograph "House in Eden Lane by kim traynor"