Fergus MacCunn
Born	19 April 1890 Hampstead
Died	18 May 1941 (aged 51) Upton upon Severn
Occupation	Activist
Spouse	Maude Annie Scott ​ (m. 1918)​

Captain Fergus MacCunn (19 April 1890 – 18 May 1941) was a British animal welfare activist and chief secretary of the RSPCA.

MacCunn was educated at a private school in Cranleigh, Surrey.^[1] He served in the London and Scottish King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1914 to 1917.^[2] He was severely injured in 1917.^[2] E. Douglas Hume commented that "a bullet through the head put an end to his soldiering".^[3]

MacCunn joined the RSPCA in 1910, became assistant secretary in 1924 and succeeded Edward G. Fairholme as chief secretary of the RSPCA in 1934.^[4][3] He attended RSPCA meetings throughout Britain.^[5]

In February 1926, MacCunn lectured at Birkbeck College where he requested to form a new animal welfare society.^[6] His lecture was influential to C. W. Hume who founded the University of London Animal Welfare Society. He was the British delegate to Humane Association's 1935 convention in Washington.^[1] He was an honorary member of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.^[1] He organized the Finnish War Animals Fund during the Winter War in 1940 and re-opened the British Sick and Wounded Horses Fund.^[1]

He suffered from heart trouble and died in 1941, aged 51.^[4][7]

MacCunn was the son of Hamish MacCunn and Alison Pettie.^[1] He married Maude Annie Scott; they had one son, Robin.

• The Royal Family and the R.S.P.C.A. In Crown and Empire (1937)
• Country Friends (1938)
• Pets for Young People (with Wellesley Pain, 1938)
• Cats (1945)