Stuart MacGregor was a Scottish poet, novelist and songwriter.

MacGregor attended medical school in Edinburgh and practised as an anaesthesiologist. He later taught social medicine, both in Scotland and the West Indies.

In 1958, with Hamish Henderson

Hamish Henderson

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, MacGregor co-founded the Edinburgh University Folk Society and was its first President . He wrote a number of widely recorded folk songs about Edinburgh life including the humorous "Sandy Bell's Man" about dating medical students and the romantic "Coshieville."

MacGregor's poetry appeared in a collection published by Reprographia in 1970, Four Points of a Saltire. This featured the work of four Scottish poets, the others being Sorley MacLean

Sorley MacLean

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, George Campbell Hay

George Campbell Hay

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 and William Neill

William Neill

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. MacGregor's two novels were The Myrtle and the Ivy (1967) and The Sinner (1973), both set in the Edinburgh folk scene.

MacGregor died in a car crash in 1973, aged thirty-seven.