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MACPHERSON, SIR JOHN MOLESWORTH, eldest son of John Macpherson MD, EICS Bengal, Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals, Bengal, and Charlotte Melosina, fifth dau. of Rev. John Molesworth Staples, Rector of Lissane, co. Tyrone, Ireland; b. 8 Aug 1853; adm. 27 Sep 1866 (G); Min. Can. 1868; left 1871; adm. Inner Temple 31 Oct 1873, called to bar 28 Jun 1876; advocate, High Court, Calcutta 1876; Deputy Secretary, Legislative Dept., Government of India 1877-96, Secretary 1896-1911; CSI 22 Jun 1897; knighted 12 Dec 1911; author, The Law of Mortgage in British India, 1885; m. 1881 Edith, dau. of Gen. Charles Waterloo Hutchinson CB, Royal Engineers, Inspector-Gen. of Military Works, India; d. 5 Jan 1914. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.