Education
Macfarlan was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he proceeded Master of Arts
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Macfarlan was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he proceeded Master of Arts
He settled in London, and for some years kept a successful school at Walthamstow, Essex. lieutenant was at Shern Lodge, also called Shernhall House, and he ran it from about 1770 to about 1795, when he left Walthamstow. His pupils included Robert Plumer Ward.
At one time Macfarlane was editor of the Morning Chronicle and London Packet.
He reported, from memory, some of the major speeches in parliament during Lord North"s administration, in particular from those delivered in the debates on the American War of Independence. On the evening of 8 August 1804, during the Brentford election, Macfarlan was killed by an accidental fall under a carriage, at Hammersmith.