- Tenure
- 1899 — 1904
- Era
- Early Colonial Administration (1900 — 1929)
- Mode of entry
- Appointed by the Crown from Papua New Guinea
- Mode of exit
- Promoted to Newfoundland
A medical doctor by training. Built Lagos's first sanitary infrastructure, opened the Lagos–Ibadan railway (1901), and is regarded as the most humane of the early Lagos governors.
Sir William MacGregor (1846–1919), a Scottish physician who governed British New Guinea before Lagos, used his medical training to wage the first organised public-health campaigns in Nigeria — quinine prophylaxis, mosquito drainage, and the first government hospital at Onikan. He laid the first stones of the Lagos–Ibadan Railway (opened 4 March 1901 to Ibadan, the third railway built in Africa south of the Sahara). He convened the Central Native Council in Lagos, the first attempt at a representative African advisory body in southern Nigeria.
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.