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MacPherson, Crane and Company were forwarders (bookbinders) based in Kingston, Ontario.

The Macpherson family begins with John Macpherson and Jane Catherine Herchmer Macpherson, and includes their children, John Lawrence, Naomi Ann, and Frances Amelia.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander “Sandy” Macphail was an engineer, professor, and university administrator; b. 25 January 1870 in Orwell, son of William Macphail and Catherine E. Smith; m. 10 May 1910 Agnes Mary Moray, and they had one child, Moray St. John; Church of Scotland; d. 13 January 1949. Macphail, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election held 15 November 1911 for 4th Queens. The by-election was necessary due to the appointment of F. L. Haszard to the provincial Supreme Court. Macphail was re-elected in the general election of 1912. On 24 April 1915, his absence from the Legislative Assembly was excused due to his service in the war, and he was not a candidate in the general election of 1915.

Macphail received his early education in local schools and at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He then attended McGill University in Montreal, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, going on to become a professor in the School of Mining at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Macphail was appointed to the Department of Civil Engineering in 1904. He returned to Queen’s after the FirstWorld War in 1919 and was appointed head of the Department of Civil Engineering, a post he held for 20 years. When Macphail retired in 1939, he was awarded an honourary degree. He was also awarded an honourary degree from McGill. He was the first recipient of the Medal for Meritorious Service to Queen’s, awarded by the Montreal Branch of Queen’s Alumni.

In the First World War, Macphail served as a commanding officer of the Canadian Officers Training Corps at Queen’s. He was a Major in No. 5 Company of the Canadian Engineers. He formed the Queen’s Company of Military Engineers and in 1914 was asked to assemble and proceed with this company to Valcartier. The company formed a nucleus from which contingent parts went overseas to serve mainly as engineers for the Canadian Air Force. During his time in the military, Macphail rose from Major to Lieutenant-Colonel. James Alexander Macphail died 13 January 1949.

Macphail was the brother of Sir Andrew Macphail, the noted physician and surgeon, agriculturalist, teacher, and writer. The Macphail Homestead is presently maintained by the provincial government as an historic site.

Author and pathologist, Montreal, Quebec.

Isabel MacNeill was a graduate of Queen's University.

R.R. MacNeil was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

The probate of the last Will and Testament of James Macnee was on September 3, 1881 and the Executors were Sarah Elizabeth Macnee, James Richmond and Robert Vashon Rogers. James Richmond died April 24, 1894 and Sarah E. Macnee died June 17, 1891. On February 16, 1894 Walter H. Macnee was appointed a trustee of the Macnee Estate. In 1900 the Estate appears to have been settled and in April of 1901, the Macnee Trust began formal operation. On March 2, 1903 the shares of the Macnee Trust were as follows: Walter Hill Macnee, one seventh; Mary E. Cappon, one seventh; Francis Hill Macnee, one seventh; Ethel W. Macnee, two sevenths; Arthur F. Macnee, one seventh; Alice L. Macnee, one seventh.

The Trust owned a building occupied by Starr and Sutcliffe (later Steacy and Steacy), the Macnee Warehouse Building (136-140 Princess Street), and properties in Gananoque (Ferguson block and 1029 Pine Street).

John Macmurray was born at Maxwellton in the Scottish borders in 1891. He moved (with his family) to Aberdeen at around the age of ten and attended Aberdeen Grammar School and Robert Gordon's College before proceeding to Glasgow University, from which he graduated. After completing his Honours Classics work at Glasgow in September 1913, he follow in the long tradition of Snell Exhibitioners, exceptional Glasgow graduates awarded scholarships to Balliol College, Oxford. There he studied history and philosophy, but his tutor, the philosopher A.D. Lindsay, helped strengthen his interest in philosophy by bringing him to see it as a preparation for life and service.

During the First World War Macmurray served with the British army in France, first with the Royal Army Medical Corps and later as a lieutenant with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders with whom he was awarded a Military Cross, 1918. Early in 1917, he wrote his first known published piece of writing, a short reflection on a soldier's image of God in the midst of the carnage at the front, called ‘Trench Religion', which was published in a book edited by Prof David Cairns entitled The Army and Religion , 1919. That same year (1919) he returned to Balliol where his academic career properly began with his appointment to the John Locke Scholarship, graduating M.A. with distinction in litterae humaniores .

His first academic post was a lectureship in philosophy at Manchester University, but before long he accepted an invitation to become Professor of Philosophy at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. His time in South Africa lasted only eighteen months before he returned to Oxford and to Balliol as Jowett Lecturer and Classical Tutor, a position he held from 1922 to 1928. In 1928 he moved again, this time to become a professor of philosophy at London University College, succeeding Dawes-Hicks in the position of Grote Professor of Mind and Logic. There he remained until 1944 when he finally returned to Scotland as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in succession to A E Taylor, who had also preceded him at Manchester.

Macmurray remained largely outwith the fashions of professional British philosophy, and partly for this reason his identification as a philosopher in the Scottish tradition is questionable. But one aspect of the kind of philosophy he learnt at Glasgow persisted throughout his career, namely the belief that philosophy should address itself to broader human concerns and be practised in a wider cultural context than simply that of professional colleagues. As a result, his work received wide public recognition from his numerous writings, and especially his radio broadcasts of the 1930s. It is also true that from the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh he influenced the life and thought of successive generations of students. His conception of philosophy and its affinity with Scottish intellectual traditions is most evident in the Gifford Lectures he gave at the University of Glasgow in 1953.

Macmurray retired from the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1957. Having for most of his life been a somewhat reluctant Christian, in retirement he became a member of the Society of Friends. He died in 1976.

Source: ‘The life and Thought of John Macmurray' by Jack Costello, in John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives , (eds.) David Fergusson and Nigel Dower.

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Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, GCVO, PC, FRSE, was a Scottish advocate, judge, Parliamentarian and civil servant.