Inscription to Colonel Sir John Farquharson KCB
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Inscription to Colonel Sir John Farquharson KCB
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 10 May 2016
This is the inscription on Image Colonel Sir John Farquharson KCB was born John Cosmo MacPherson in Tomintoul on 18 March 1839, son of Charles MacPherson, minister of Tomintoul, and Mary Farquharson. He took the name Farquharson in 1888 after inheriting Corrachree (also known as Logie-Mar) from his mother's brother John in 1871. He attended Marischal College in Aberdeen and the Royal Military College, Woolwich before being commissioned in the Royal Engineers. He joined the Ordnance Survey in 1872, and rose through the survey to be appointed Director-General in 1894, in which capacity he served until his retirement in 1899. He died unmarried in Edinburgh on 3 July 1905. For a fuller account of his life see https://archive.org/stream/geographicaljou29britgoog/geographicaljou29britgoog_djvu.txt
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