Interesting gifts are made out of the fortune left by Mrs Margaret McGregor, of Butterflatts, Stirling, widow of Mr John McGregor, a wealthy merchant of Kangoon. Mrs McGregor left personal estate value £ol<,lß<. She bequeathed her china and bric-a-bac to the Corporation of Glasgow and ~ 20,000 to the University of Glasgow for the purpose of establishing a chair in connexion with medical research. A gift of her house at Butterflatts, along with £30,000 to the Church of Scotland was previously announced. If there were but one potato in the world, says a calculator, a careful cultivator might produce 10,000,000,000 from it in ten years, and thus supply the world with seed again.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19643, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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