The Guests of Honour at the Society Dinner in
Pitlochry will be Sir Malcolm MacGregor of
MacGregor bt. and his wife Lady Fiona
MacGregor.
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Sir Malcolm is the 24th chief of Clan
Gregor and Chieftain of the Children of the Mist. He is
Convenor of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs.
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Born in 1959, he spent most of his early
life travelling the world with his parents. In 1980 he was
commissioned into the Scots Guards and spent time in Northern
Ireland. He also served four years in 48 Gurkha Brigade in
Hong Kong and with 6th Gurkha Rifles. His final post was Chief
of Staff of
51 Highland Brigade in Perth.
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After that he became a prominent landscape
photographer and spent time in the Sultanate of Oman on
various projects and commissions. He has produced two
photography books on the islands off the west coast of
Scotland. Latterly he has worked for the humanitarian
mine-clearing agency, the HALO Trust based in
Dumfriesshire.
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Lady
Fiona MacGregor is probably better to known to
readers in the UK as Fiona Armstrong. She is a Scottish
freelance journalist, presenter and newsreader who has made
and presented programs for the BBC, ITN, Border Television and
Sky. Some may recall that she was one of the founder
faces of GMTV Breakfast Television.
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Lady Fiona specialises in Scottish clan
history and has made more than 20 films on Scottish
families. In 2006 she set up the first Border Reiver Trail in
the south of Scotland. She writes for magazines and
newspapers, including columns for Scottish Field magazine and
the American-based Scotbanner newspaper. She has also written
two fishing books and two cook books.
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She married Sir
Malcolm MacGregor in 2005. It is reported that they met on the
banks of a river.
