Sir John Maclure, 1st Baronet

Sir John William Maclure, 1st Baronet (22 April 1835 – 28 January 1901), was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

Maclure was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, but left university without taking a degree due to ill health.

He played an important role for the revival of Conservatism in Manchester and served as President of the Conservative Association of South and East Lancashire.

In 1898 he was created a Baronet, of The Home in Whalley Range near Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

In his memory, his family paid for a stained-glass window placed in the clerestory of the nave of Manchester Cathedral in June 1902.

John William Maclure, 1891
"The Whitehead Torpedo "
Maclure as caricatured by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , October 1892