763 Donald McGregor

Constituency :Leith  Burghs  1874-8

Donald  unseated  the  incumbent  Liberal  Robert  Macfie  by  a  large  margin.

Donald  was  a  shipowner  from  the  town. He  sought  to  benefit  from  the  opening  of  the  Suez  Canal  and  the  resultant  increased  trade  with  the  East.

Donald  resigned  the  seat  in  1878.  He  stood  again  in  a  by-election   in  1886  as  an  Independent  Liberal  Unionist  supported  by  the  local  Conservative  association  but  was  easily  defeated.

He  died  in  1889  aged  75.