Allan Macpherson

Allan Macpherson (24 October 1818 – 6 November 1891) was a squatter, pastoralist and politician in the colony of New South Wales, a member of the Legislative Assembly.

[1] He went to Sydney, Australia with his parents Willam and Jessie Macpherson (née Chalmers) in 1829 where he attended Cape's School and later squatted on the rural properties of Keera near Bingara, New South Wales and Mount Abundance near Roma in Queensland.

[2] Macpherson's account of his experiences as a squatter,[2] recounts his constant conflicts with the Aboriginal peoples of the Mandandanji nation.

He visited Australia in 1856-57 and sold his squatting properties,[4][5] before his family moved to Sydney in 1862.

[6] Macpherson was a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Central Cumberland at the 1860 election, but was unsuccessful.