Sir Patrick Macgregor, 1st Baronet (30 June 1777 – 17 July 1828)[1] was a Royal Physician appointed to King George IV's household.
He was created a baronet on 17 March 1828 a few months before his death in his long-term home area of Saville Row in London.
[11] Macgregor was a Vice President of the College of Surgeons[12] and a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
[13] It was as the Surgeon at the Royal Military Asylum (first appointed in 1804) that Macgregor achieved some of his most effective contributions to medical science.
[16] Macgregor wrote in 1811 that 'Egyptian Ophthalmia' (Trachoma) in the army had: 'at different periods materially interfered with its discipline and efficiency.