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University of Edinburgh. Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet (1745 – 12 January 1821), was a British administrator in India. He was the acting Governor-General of Bengal from 1785 to 1786.
Nationality. Scottish. Occupation. privateer. Spouse (s) Margaret Rogers (1752–1770; her death) Mary Ann MacNeal (1772–1792; his death) John Macpherson (1726—September 6, 1792) was a Scottish-born privateer. After emigrating to colonial America, he built Mount Pleasant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1762.
- 1726, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Scottish
- September 6, 1792 (aged 65 or 66), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sir John Macpherson (1745–1821) was the son of a Scottish minister. His many tours of service with the East India Company were marred by corruption and scandal. He was made acting...
English. Français. EMPIRE AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN THREE LETTERS FROM SIR WILLIAM JONES TO GOVERNOR-GENERAL JOHN MACPHERSON. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2019. JOSHUA EHRLICH. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
- Joshua Ehrlich
- 2019
John MacPherson or Macpherson may refer to: John Macpherson (minister) (1710–1765), Scottish minister and antiquarian. Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet (1745–1821), Scottish administrator in India. John Macpherson (physician) (1817–1890), Scottish physician. John Alexander MacPherson (1833–1894), Australian politician.
watershed in the history of Britain's colonialism in Nigeria after 1945 because John Macpherson personified the liberalism that had come into. effect within the Colonial Office and which changed the attitude of British. officials towards emergent nationalism in Nigeria after the Second World War.
Privateering could earn practitioners great fortunes. John McPherson (1726-92), a successful Philadelphia merchant, gathered wealth sufficient to build the estate Mount Pleasant. That estate was later sold to Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) and survived as a prominent structure in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.
