Henry Cockburn Macandrew

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Cockburn Macandrew VD JP FSAScot (8 May 1832 – 26 September 1898) was a Scottish solicitor and Inverness functionary. Macandrew worked throughout his life as a solicitor in Inverness, also serving in the British Army as part of the Volunteer Force, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel after twenty-five years of service. From 1883 to 1889 Macandrew was the provost of Inverness, for which service he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1887. His children included Major-General Sir Henry Macandrew.

Early life Henry Cockburn Macandrew was born in Inverness on 8 May 1832. He was one of nine children of John Macandrew, a solicitor.

Having been educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the University of Aberdeen, Macandrew initially intended to become part of the Free Church of Scotland but instead joined his father's legal office in Inverness where he received legal training.

Legal and military career After leaving his father's legal practice in 1851 Macandrew joined the Bank of England, working there until 1854 when he returned to Inverness. Macandrew was promoted to become one of two majors in the now-renamed Administrative Battalion of Inverness-shire Highland Rifle Volunteers on 4 September 1875. He retired from the army in 1884, and as such on 18 November that year was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-colonel to become the honorary colonel of the battalion. He received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration for twenty years of service in the Volunteer Force.

Public office Macandrew was appointed as sheriff-clerk of Invernessshire in 1870, and in 1882 was elected to serve on Inverness Town Council. In the same year he was also elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, having published several papers on the ecclesiastical history of Scotland and Ireland.

Personal life Macandrew married Mary Rait, daughter of David Crichton Rait of Glasgow, on 28 August 1862. The service at St John's Episcopal Church, Glasgow, was conducted by William Wilson. Together the couple lived at Aisthorpe, and had one son and three daughters, including: Major-General Sir Henry John Milnes Macandrew (7 August 1866 – 16 July 1919), British Indian Army cavalry officer. Edith Margaret Catherine Colquhoun Macandrew (b. before 1873), married Major Granville Cholmondeley Feilden in 1894. Fanny Macandrew (b. before 1873)