John Machar (1796 – February 7, 1863) was the second principal (1846–1853) of
Queen's University, then known as Queen's College at Kingston.
Machar was born in
Tannandice,
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
. He was ordained as a
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...
minister in 1819. In 1827, he emigrated to
Kingston,
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ...
in order to become the minister at
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
Machar was one of the original trustees of the University, and became its principal in 1846, when
Thomas Liddell
Thomas Liddell (October 18, 1800 – June 11, 1880) was the first Principal of Queen's University, then Queen's College.
Life
Liddell was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1800, the son of John Liddell and his wife Janet Martin. He stud ...
resigned unexpectedly. He resigned in 1853, after a term marred by financial issues.
He was the father of author
Agnes Maule Machar
Agnes Maule Machar ( pen name, Fidelis; 23 January 1837 – 24 January 1927) was a Canadian author, poet and social reformer.
Early life
Machar's father, John Machar immigrated to Canada in 1827, and married Margaret Sim (a fellow Scotti ...
.
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1796 births
1893 deaths
19th-century Presbyterian ministers
Canadian Presbyterians
Immigrants to Upper Canada
People from Angus, Scotland
Principals of Queen's University at Kingston
Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
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