Download or read book The Aberdeen University Review, Vol. 7 written by University of Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Aberdeen University Review, Vol. 7: 1919-20 To write an article upon the late Right Honourable Sir William MacGregor, late Governor of Queensland, and to give a short summary of the career of one of the most distinguished graduates who ever passed through the portals of the Aberdeen University, is a difficult thing to do in an adequate manner. Books might be written on it. He began life as a doctor of medicine - the most human of all professions, and this fact explains the key-note of his subsequent career. He was an Anthropologist in the widest sense of the term, a student of man and races, and as a consequence proved a successful administrator or governor in whatever part of the world he happened to be placed. In the case of the Colonies in which there were coloured races, he ruled not by the using of the strong hand but by setting himself to acquire a knowledge, from an unprejudiced point of view, of the mentality, morality, manners and customs of those whom he was set apart to govern, and to shape his administration accordingly. There have been few governors or administrators in the history of the British Empire who had the gifts and qualifications of Sir William MacGregor. He was a man of wide reading and scholarship and a lifelong classical student, but most marked of all was his scientific bent of mind and unfailing interest in every branch of research, and with this was combined indomitable perseverence, great natural shrewdness and high administrative capacity. Sir William MacGregor was a remarkable, and in some respects an unique example of a Scotsman rising by his own exertions from the humblest origin to one of the highest and most honourable offices in the British Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.