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OBITUARY

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Vincent
AuthorANDREW SKINNER
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1980.tb00936.x
Date01 November 1980
Published date01 November 1980
OBITUARY
ALEC
LAWRENCE
MACFIE,
LL.D
1898-1 980
ALM’s grandfather, John Macfie, hailed originally from Wigtownshire,
but established a business in Crown Street, Glasgow, as a House-Factor
and later agent for the Commercial Bank. He married Jean Gowans and
had a daughter and three
sons,
respectively, William Gowans, Alec, and
John Mandeville-the latter named in memory of a great-uncle who had
been empressed into
H.M.
Navy and died
in
the Jamaican port of Mandeville.
The eldest
son,
William, married Alison Wilson who gave him
in
due course
two
large sons and a truly beautiful daughter.
William Macfie was Minister of Partick East United Free Church when the
present building was erected. But he suffered from tuberculosis, and as a
result removed his family to South Africa in
1901.
He intended to
go
to
Pietermaritzburg, high in the Transvaal,
for
the sake of his health, but the
Boer War, which he had thought likely
to
end before the family’s arrival,
made this impossible. Accordingly the Macfies settled in Mowbray, then a
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