Malcolm McEacharn
Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn was Mayor of Melbourne from 1897 to 1900. He was a wellknown Australian shipping magnate in the early part of the twentieth century and successfully stood for the Division of Melbourne at the inaugural federal election, held in 1901.
McEacharn was born in London onFebruary 1852 to a master mariner Malcolm and his wife Ann, ne Gay, both from the Isle of Islay, Scotland. His father died in a shipwreck two years later, and, as the son of a dead sailor, the Royal Caledonian School in Islington cared for and educated him for seven years when he was of school age. In 1866, at age 14, he joined a London shipping office named Rucker, Offor amp Co. He began his own shipbroking business in 1873 at age 21. Two years later he partnered with Andrew McIlwraith to found McIlwraith, McEacharn amp Co. in London. He married his first wife Ann Peirson, from a landowning family near Pickering, in Goathland, North Yorkshire onJanuary 1878. St Marys church, Goathland has several plaques dedicated to the memory of their families.
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