Reginald James MacGregor was a British

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 author

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 of children's literature

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 who wrote numerous books and plays between the 1920s and 1950s, as RJ McGregor. His early books had Far East

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ern settings. His most successful books were The Young Detectives and its sequels. These books charted the adventures of a family where the children had the same names as his children. He was the Headmaster of Bristol Grammar Preparatory School, and was a great influence on the many pupils who passed through the school, including Tunku Osman Tunku Mohammad Jewa

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In 1975, the Dunham Massey

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Thespians put on productions of four of his plays: The Dyspeptic Ogre, The Caravan, Take Your Pick and Twixt Eleven And Twelve.