MACFIE

Robert Andrew (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). b. Leith 4 Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ash field hall, Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh 1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859, M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question 1863; Colonial questions pre ing for immediate solution 1871; Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commi ioners on the depre ed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885; The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. d. Dreghorn, Coll int on near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. The Biograph , July 1879 pp. 61–4; New Monthly Mag. cxvi 936–8 (1879), portrait .