Angusine Macgregor Biography

Angusine Jeanne Macgregor (1879-1961) was a Scottish artist.  Her father, Angus Macgregor, was a farmer’s son from Laggan in the Central Highlands of Scotland, and her mother, Jeanne Chisholm, was born in the same hamlet.  

Forsaking farming for the drapery trade, Angus Macgregor moved south and became a commercial traveller.  After stints in Worcester and at Herne Hill in South London, he settled his family in 1881 in Birmingham, where Angusine, the sixth of six daughters, was born in the suburb of Harborne in 1879, as was the seventh child and only son, Peter Chisholm Macgregor, who died in infancy.  The household was by then sufficiently well-off to accommodate both a live-in lady’s maid and a domestic servant.

In due course, Angusine went on to study at the Birmingham School of Art and subsequently became an illustrator and writer of children’s books.  From July 1917 to July 1919, she served as housekeeper with the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Ajaccio, Corsica, then returned to the family home in Birmingham, from where she continued to work as an illustrator. She never married and died at the Parkfield Nursing Home in Birmingham on 26th February 1961.

Books illustrated by Macgregor:-

Non-Ladybird books:-

The Mysterious Disappearance of What and Why 1905

The Story of Snips 1909

The Bunny Book 1909 

The Story of Flip and Fuzzy: A Picture-book for Little Folk 1911

Flippity the Runaway 1919

Ladybird (series 401):-

Bob Bushtail's Adventures 1941

Downy Duckling 1942

Bunnikin's Picnic Party 1940

Bunny's First Birthday 1950

Ginger's Adventures 1941

Smoke and Fluff

Piggly Plays Truant

Lost at the Fair 1948

The Green Umbrella

Five Little Kittens

The Runaway

Mr Badger to the Rescue

The First Day of the Holidays

The Bunney-Fluffs' Moving Day