| Administrative History | Donald Gregory (1803 – 1836) was the fifth son of James Gregory (1753 - 1821) and his wife, Isabella Macleod (c1772 - 1847), and a twin brother of William Gregory (1803 - 1858).
Although he made his career in the legal profession, with a brief period of service in Royal Scots Fusiliers from 1826 to 1828, he is best known as an antiquary and author of 'History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland from A.D. 1493 to A.D. 1625' (1836). He did not marry.
He had ten siblings, many of whom attained academic and professional distinction: John (1797 - 1869); Hugh (1799 - 1811); James Craufurd (1801 - 1832); William (1803 - 1858); Jane Macleod (1805 - 1813); Elizabeth Forbes (1808 - 1811); Margaret Craufurd (1809 - 1849), who married her first cousin, William Pulteney Alison; Georgina (1811 - 1877); Duncan Farquharson (1813 - 1844); and Isabella (1816 - 1818). |
| Description | Letter from Donald Gregory to his mother, Isabella Gregory, 15 December 1826; appointment to the secretaryship of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland, 21 December 1828; memorandum concerning 'The Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland', 19th century; certificate of honorary membership of the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4 February 1835; notes for Donald Gregory's 'The Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland', 19th century; obituary notice, 1836. |