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	*{{cite book\|last=McGregor\|first=R. S. ~~(editor)~~\|title=Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwQ7UxPc8dcC\|year=1992\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=978-0-521-41311-4}}		*{{cite book\|editor-last=McGregor\|editor-first=R. S. \|title=Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwQ7UxPc8dcC\|year=1992\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=978-0-521-41311-4}}
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{{Short description|Philologist}}
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[[File:Stuart McGregor.jpg|thumb|Stuart McGregor]]
'''Ronald Stuart McGregor''', commonly '''R. S. McGregor''' (or Stuart McGregor) (24 October 1929 – 19 August 2013), was a philologist of the [[Hindi language]].{{Sfn|Pauwels|1993|pp=454–455}} Best known as editor of the ''Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary'', a standard reference work published in 1993 after a sustained effort of twenty years,{{sfn|Pauwels|1993|pp=454–455}} McGregor was a Fellow of [[Wolfson College, Cambridge|Wolfson College]] and retired as Reader in Hindi at the [[University of Cambridge]].{{Sfn|Trivedi|2013}}

==Biography==
McGregor was born in [[New Zealand]] in 1929.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=436}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/search?searchType=1&searchCode=NAME&searchArg=McGregor,%20Ronald%20Stuart,%201929- |title=McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1929–) |publisher=Ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk |access-date=15 February 2014}}</ref> His parents were Scottish. He was educated at [[Ashburton College|Ashburton High School]] before going up to [[University of Canterbury|Canterbury University College]], and then to [[Merton College, Oxford]] to read English, matriculating in 1952, taking his BA in 1954, and studying Germanic Philology until 1956. He held posts at [[SOAS University of London]] and then went to the [[University of Allahabad]] in 1959–60 to study Hindi. In 1964 he took up the post of University Lecturer in Hindi at Cambridge in 1964.<ref name="MCreg" />

His PhD thesis, ''The Language of Indrajit of Orchā – A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose'', was published in 1968.{{sfn|Trivedi|2013}}

McGregor married Elaine Langdon in 1960; they had two sons.<ref name="MCreg" />

==Publications==
*{{cite book|last=McGregor|first=Ronald Stuart|title=Outline of Hindi Grammar: With Exercises|year=1995|orig-year=1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-870008-1}}
*{{cite book|last=McGregor|first=R. S.|title=The Language of Indrajit of Orchā: A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-05228-3}}
*{{cite book|last=McGregor|first=R. S. (editor)|title=Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwQ7UxPc8dcC|year=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-41311-4}}
*{{cite book|last=McGregor|first=Ronald Stuart|title=The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-864339-5}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{citation|last=Pauwels|first=Heidi|title=Review of ''The Oxford Hindi–English dictionary''. Edited by R. S. McGregor, pp. xx, 1083, Oxford and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993, £50.00|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|date = November 1993|pages=454–455|volume=5|issue=3|doi=10.1017/s1356186300006969}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-storyteller-of-hindi/1162437/0|last= Trivedi | first = Harish|date = 31 August 2013|title=The storyteller of Hindi|work=The Indian Express}}

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[[Category:Lexicographers]]
[[Category:Linguists of Hindi]]
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[[Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford]]

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