Ian McGregor (malariologist)

Professor Sir Ian McGregor CBE FRS FRCP FRSE
Born	Ian Alexander McGregor (1922-08-26)26 August 1922 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died	1 February 2007(2007-02-01) (aged 84) Homington, Wiltshire, England
Nationality	United Kingdom
Education	Rutherglen Academy
Alma mater	St Mungo's College Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Employers	Medical Research Council Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Sir Ian Alexander McGregor (26 August 1922 – 1 February 2007) was a Scottish malariologist.

McGregor was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland.[1] His father was a tailor, his mother a housewife.[2]

He was educated at Rutherglen Academy, then studied medicine at St Mungo's College and Glasgow Royal Infirmary.[2]

He became interested in and studied malaria while undertaking National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Palestine,[3] undergoing training in malariology at the Middle East School of Hygiene at Dimra.[2]

In 1949, he was sent to The Gambia as a member of the Medical Research Council's Human Nutrition Research Unit,[3] and was appointed Director of the MRC's Gambian Field Station at Fajara in 1954.[3]

In 1980, he returned to the United Kingdom, as visiting professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.[3]

He was awarded the Darling Foundation Medal in 1974,[1] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981[4] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1959 New Year Honours;[5] a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1968 Birthday Honours;[6] and a Knight Bachelor in the 1982 Birthday Honours, "for services to Tropical Medicine".[7]

He served on several World Health Organization committees on malaria.[2]

He died at Homington, Wiltshire[1] in 2007.[2]

Notable works

• Wernsdorfer, Walther H.; McGregor, Ian A. (1989). Malaria: Principles and Practice of Malariology. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 978-0443024177.

References

1. "Sir Ian Mcgregor". The Independent. 14 February 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
2. "Sir Ian McGregor" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh.
3. Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2001). British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-077-9. OL 11612213M. Wikidata Q29581648.
4. Wilson, R. J. M. (Iain) (2022). "Sir Ian Alexander McGregor. 26 August 1922 – 1 February 2007". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 74.
5. "No. 41589". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1958. pp. 1–36.
6. "No. 44600". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1968. pp. 6299–6331.
7. "No. 49008". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1982. pp. 1–29.

External links

• Ian McGregor on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website