Sir John William Maclure, 1st Baronet (22 April 1835 – 28 January 1901), was a British businessman and

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politician.

Biography

Maclure was educated at

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and

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, but left university without taking a degree due to ill health. He later became manager of the Guardian Insurance Company and was also Secretary of the Cotton Famine Relief Fund during the

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in the early 1860s. He played an important role for the revival of Conservatism in

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and served as President of the Conservative Association of South and East Lancashire. In the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested

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, but was successfully returned for the same constituency in the 1886 general election, and held the seat until his death. In 1898 he was created a Baronet, of The Home in Whalley Range near Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster. In January 1900 he was elected as Chairman of the Lancashire Conservative Members of Parliament. He died in January 1901, aged 65. In his memory, his family paid for a stained-glass window placed in the clerestory of the nave of

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in June 1902. His brother, Edward Craig Maclure was

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from 1890 to 1906. His youngest heir to the title is John James Maclure born 1997. He attended Bristol University.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *
Short biography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maclure, Sir John William, 1st Baronet 1835 births 1901 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford People educated at Manchester Grammar School