About John Sangster Macfarlane
Lived 1818 – 1880 (aged 61–62). John Sangster Macfarlane was a New Zealand politician.
John Sangster Macfarlane (1818 – 2 February 1880) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand.
He unsuccessfully contested the for , and the for .
He then represented the Waitemata electorate from 1876 to 1879, when he was defeated.
He was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland and arrived in Auckland via Sydney. He died in Auckland on 2 February 1880 from cancer of the stomach.
Two or three years before his death he lost a bet that a "prominent politician" would soon be in Mt Eden (gaol) and Swanson kept and showed but did not cash the cheque for £80 he received from Macfarlane.
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