[15] He opened the stand at Jock's Lodge, the home of Royal HSFP that year.
[17] MacGill was included in the Scotland travelling party to Ireland for their Five Nations Championship match in 1939.
[18] MacGill served in the army in the First World War as a captain of the Highland Light Infantry.
[19] MacGill began a career in shipping; first with James Rankine and Son in Glasgow.
[20] MacGill succeeded R. A. Somerville as a member of the Leith Dock Commission.
He represented the Chamber of Shipping as an advisory board member for new works of the Northern Lighthouse Commissioners.