John MacGregor (1828 – 27 March 1884) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), and Minister of Mines.
[1] He arrived in Victoria in 1840, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1855, and practised in Melbourne, in what was latterly the firm of MacGregor, Ramsay, & Brahe.
[1] MacGregor unsuccessfully contested East Bourke in 1856 and 1861, but after the retirement of Wilson Gray in September 1862 MacGregor was returned for Rodney, for which district he sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly till March 1874, when he retired from Parliament.
[1] On the defeat of the John Alexander MacPherson Ministry in April 1870 MacGregor was asked by the Governor to form a Government, but he recommended that Sir James McCulloch should be sent for.
He had long retired from public life when he died on 27 March 1884[1] at his home in Gipps street, East Melbourne, Victoria.