About John Henry MacFarland
Lived 1851 – 1935 (aged 84). John Henry MacFarland was a British educator.
Sir John Henry MacFarland (19 April 1851 – 22 July 1935) was an Irish–Australian university chancellor.
MacFarland was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland and educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast.
MacFarland taught at Repton School in Derbyshire from 1876 to 1880. (A decade later, his younger brother Robert (1860–1922), also a Queen's Belfast and Cambridge maths graduate, would teach at Repton.) In 1881, he became the first master of Ormond College in the University of Melbourne. In 1919, he became chancellor of the university and was knighted the same year. In 1892, the Royal University of Ireland had bestowed upon him an honorary LLD degree.
MacFarland became a director of the National Mutual Life Association c. 1905 and was chairman from 1928. He died in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 22 July 1935.
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