Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Senator for Tasmania | |
Term Start: | 29 March 1901 |
Term End: | 30 June 1910 |
Birth Date: | 1844 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
Death Place: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
Party: | Free Trade (1901 - 06) Anti-Socialist (1906 - 09) Liberal (1909 - 10) |
Occupation: | Merchant |
James Macfarlane (2 September 1844 - 24 November 1914) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, he was educated in London at Bruce Coastal School and worked with a shipping firm. He migrated to Australia in 1870, becoming a merchant and shipping agent. In 1901, he was elected to the Australian Senate for Tasmania as a Free Trader. He held the seat until his defeat in 1910.[1]
Macfarlane died in 1914.[2]