Donald Horne Macfarlane

Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane (July 1830 – 2 June 1904) was a Scottish merchant who entered politics and became a Member of Parliament (MP), firstly as a Home Rule League MP in Ireland and then as Liberal and Crofters Party MP in Scotland.

Macfarlane was born in Scotland, the youngest son of Allan Macfarlane, J.P., of Caithness and his wife Margaret Horne.[1] He became an East Indies merchant as a tea trader and indigo plantation owner. While in India he was a passionate amateur photographer. He experimented freely and produced semi-abstract images.[2]

At the 1880 general election Macfarlane was elected as a Home Rule Member of Parliament for Carlow County.[3] The Carlow constituency lost one of its two seats under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and at the 1885 general election Macfarlane stood instead for the Crofters Party in Argyllshire. He won the seat, but lost it in 1886. He was re-elected (by a narrow margin) at the 1892 general elections as a Liberal/Crofters candidate, holding it until a further defeat in 1895.[4] He was knighted in the 1894 New Year Honours.

Macfarlane married Mary Isabella Bagshawe in 1857 in India. She predeceased him in 1887. They had one son, George Macfarlane. The following year he married Fanny Worswick Robson (1842-1943).

References

Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
Holland Cotter Photography Review The Camera in the Raj, Seducing and Upsetting New York Times Friday, December 1, 2000
Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 257. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 527. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Bruen Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh	Member of Parliament for Carlow County 1880 – 1885 With: Edmund Gray	Succeeded by Edmund Gray
Preceded by Lord Colin Campbell	Member of Parliament for Argyllshire 1885 – 1886	Succeeded by John Malcolm
Preceded by John Malcolm	Member of Parliament for Argyllshire 1892 – 1895	Succeeded by Donald Nicol

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[1] Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886

[2] Holland Cotter Photography Review The Camera in the Raj, Seducing and Upsetting New York Times Friday, December 1, 2000

[walker-1801-1922-3] Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 257. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.

[craig1885-1918-4] Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 527. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.