Christopher MacEvoy Jr. (1760 – 1838) was a Danish merchant, landowner and planter. He was born in the Danish West Indies, where MacEvoy owned the Whim plantation, now a museum, on St. Croix. He later moved to

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

where he established a trading house as well as a sugar refinery at

Gammel Strand Gammel Strand (modern Danish for "old beach"; originally meant "the old shoreline", i.e. prior to land reclamations) is a street and public square in central Copenhagen, Denmark. On the south side it borders on the narrow Slotsholmens Canal whil ...

. He owned Bernstorff Palace in Charlottenlund from 1817 and the

Dehn Mansion The Dehn Mansion is one of two identical but mirror-imag Rococo-style town mansions on Bredgade, flanking the entrance to Amalienborg via Frederiksgade, in the Frederiksstaden district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Friedrich Ludw ...

in Copenhagen from 1818.

Biography

MacEvoy was born in 1760 on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, the son of Christopher MacEvoy Sr. and Mary Markoe. He inherited the Whim plantation at

Frederiksted Frederiksted is both the town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is a grid-planned city, designed by surveyor Jens Beckfor, originally to 14x14 blocks but built 7x7 to enhance the island commerce in ...

(now a museum) on St. Croix and lived in England for a few years before settling in

. He owned a property at

29 (then Ved Stranden 4) where he also operated a sugar refinery in the courtyard. The buildings were destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 but subsequently rebuilt. He purchased Bernstorff Palace in Charlottenlund north of Copenhagen in 1817. He died on the estate in 1839.

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