John Cargill (burgess)
John Cargill may refer to: * John Cargill (politician) (1821–1898), New Zealand politician *Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet (1867–1954), British chairman of the Burmah Oil Company, 1904–1943 See also *Cargill (surname) Cargill is a surname of Scottish origin, a sept of Clan Drummond. Notable people with the surname include: Persons * Ann Cargill, an 18th-century British opera diva *Ansley Cargill, an American tennis player *Baily Cargill (born 1995), British f ...

John Cargill (politician)
John Cargill (1821 – 2 January 1898) was a New Zealand politician and runholder. Early life Cargill was born in 1821; he was the son of William Cargill, one of Otago's most prominent settlers. Edward Cargill was a younger brother. John Cargill served in the Royal Navy, and he served in the West Indies on ''Ringdove'' and . He retired from the navy in 1840 and by 1841, he came to Tasmania and then Port Phillip. He visited the Pacific Islands and settled in Ceylon where he had a coffee plantation. He was asked by his father to help with preparations for the Otago emigration scheme and returned to England in 1846. On 24 November 1847, the Cargill family sailed for New Zealand on the ship , arriving at what is now Port Chalmers, Otago on 23 March 1848. New Zealand John Cargill took up a sheep run at the Coast where the Tokomairaro River flows into the Pacific Ocean at Toko Mouth. He then had sheep runs at Mount Stuart, a locality inland from Milton. He later owned the Teviot ru ...
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Sir John Cargill, 1st Baronet
Sir John Traill Cargill, 1st Baronet, Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (10 January 1867 – 24 January 1954) was a Scottish oil magnate. Early life and career Cargill was born in Glasgow, the second son of David Sime Cargill, founder of the Burmah Oil Company, and his first wife Margaret (née Traill), who died when he was five. He was educated at Glasgow Academy from 1878 to 1883, and in 1890 went to Burma to work in the Rangoon office of his father's company, returning to Glasgow three years later. Later career In 1904, he succeeded his father as chairman of the Burmah Oil Company and its associates, remaining in the post until 1943. Cargill (through his subsidiary Concessions Syndicate Ltd) provided from Glasgow the necessary finance, plant and equipment, and skilled manpower for the long drawn-out task of wresting oil from the inhospitable land of Persia. Not until 1908 were oil deposits found there, and a new subsidiary company, Anglo-Persian Oil Co Ltd (now ...
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