About Margaret MacPherson
Lived 1875 – 1956 (aged 81). Margaret MacPherson was an Australian pharmacist.
Margaret MacPherson (20 February 1875 – 27 October 1956) was an Australian pharmacist and benefactor. She and her sister established the Donald MacPherson Collection of Art and Literature at the State Library of New South Wales.
Life MacPherson was born in 1875 in Gundagai. In 1904 she successfully took the exams of the Board of Pharmacy and she was licensed to deal in medicines and poisons. She had worked for three years before this with Josiah Parker who ran a Sydney-based pharmacy and after she qualified she ran a branch of Josiah Parker's shops. The family decided to sell the substantial estate at Umbango.
MacPherson died in the Sydney suburb of Paddington in 1956. The family's papers are in the NSW library.
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Australian pharmacist and benefactor (1875-1956)
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Margaret MacPherson was born on 20 February 1875 in Gundagai.
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Margaret MacPherson died on 27 October 1956 in Paddington.
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Margaret MacPherson was a pharmacist.
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