Sir John Henry MacFarland (19 April 1851 – 22 July 1935) was an Irish–Australia

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n University Chancellor.

MacFarland was born in Omagh

Omagh

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, Tyrone

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, Ireland

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 and was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast.

In 1881 MacFarland became the first master of Ormond College (University of Melbourne)

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. In 1919 MacFarland became chancellor of the University

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and was knighted the same year.

MacFarland became a director of the National Mutual Life Association c. 1905, and was chairman from 1928.