The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-24
PECULIAR HISTORY
OF T. "A
DY la MARC USE DE ToSTESoy
TTENUION BAG ranan

u Ia Mr. DE ~FOSTENOY.
a - has recently been call
IN ca In the American press 10
the curious fact that in ali the
~ history or tho United States
ConSrna mas never been a member OF
anu inc washington Post briefly sug.
eests that this may be due to The fact
snat ~ was at ono time Il penal Of
Macgregor. Va naHie u
This merits some explanation MI
t n more as Sir Malcolm Macgregor.
a enIse q y shs clan Of tina. time, Is
oian IN question is perhaps the most
ancient OF the northern half OF the
lyilnS 9l dro Great Britain. II Is a clap
me nero OF his famous historical ro-
nance Rob Roy" Its chief. Sir Mai
eSiIn' claims descent. from Gregor.
Who houTished In 7S7-a claim estab,
Iished In Controversial Issues Of Scot
sish tiistoryn by William H. Grcgg. OF
aecoa i1p'e Of lis tarb a slan which. On
ness, was subjected at tho beginning
OF the seventeenth century 10 oun o.
the most unique pieces OF lcKisla-
dion that Is to be found IN the ANNALS
OF any civilized countries. or the world.
niter n bloody clan battle between
e lie MIasT r. and the coIquhouns al
OF Sorrow.-and which was charac.
terized by. the utmost ferocity. the
slctorious Alacgregors putting all their
adversarfes to tho sword, a INV vas
enacted at Edinburgh, dated Anil -
igVS. bearing the sign manual of ia n
"; or Scotland tJames J.. OF Great
Stitain. and lreland>. wiping out OF
existence the very name Of Macgregor.
ana decreeink the penalty of death for
any one calling himself Macgrosor.
! ms law was subsequently confirmed
IN 1917, which even went so far as to
extend the penalty of death 10 any OF
me former Macsregors who should
presume 70 assemble together in great
er numbers than four. In fact. every
enort was made TO blot out OF cxis-
tenee the Clan OF AIacgregor. and out
laws, with the hand OF every one againxt
Them, thousands OF them were put 10
fold - i
On the restoration of Charles H.,
me latter, By reason OF the many SER
cred to him under other names than
their, own. annuiied tho various la VS.
aga,nst the elan Rut a few years
NAMED In force Until the beginning
of the nineteenth century.
~Throughout the two hundred years
that elapsed between the bloody bat
tie of Glen Frnin and the repeal OF the
laws against the Macgregors. the latter
had assumed the names and tartans
ed ne cians among whom they had
whose protection they had Obtained,
come OF than becoming Drummonds.
Others Campbells, others Grahams.
DINERS Stuarts. while the hereditary
name OF Murray. Nor was Il until 1872
that the then chieftain. who had won
much military fame n a ~barnnetcy
out In India, as General Sir John Muir
ray. was authorized by Parliament, on
the Initiative of George ~, 10 re-
sumo the name of Macgregor. The
present Sir Malcolm Macgregor is the
NTH baronet of THIS creation.
General Sir John Murray was not
and fortune Beyond the seas. Thus,
General Sir Colin Campbell, Ia was
one of the heroes OF the Indian Mutiny.
and who died as Lord Clyde, was not
In reality a Campbell. nor yet a Mac
In his recently published work OF
"reminiscences. entitled Passages From
the Past though Macliver was the
name by which Lord Clydc's father
was Known where he lived on tho is-
land OF Null. But Lord Clyde's real
name was Macsregor.
Many of the Macgregors came to this
country, and one OF them achieved dis
t%inction as an American laval com
Magruder. father of the now widowed
Lady Abinger. That both she and her.
husband were aware OF the real SPELL
Ing of the old Conlmodore's name, is
shown by the fact that they gave 1t
TO their only son the late Lord Abin-'
ger. on the occasion of his christen-
Ing, not as Magruder. but as Macgre-
gor. Another is William H Gregg. one
of the most respected citizens of st.
Louis, of whose erudite work on the
subject OF the Macgregors 1 have made
mention above.
Just why the Russian imperial fami-