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{{Infobox Politician
| name = Sir Donald Macmaster
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt|KC}}
| image = Photograph of Donald Macmaster (cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 180px
| riding1 = [[Chertsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Chertsey]]
| parliament1 = United Kingdom
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| predecessor1 = [[Francis Marnham]]
| successor1 = [[Philip Richardson]]
| riding2 = [[Glengarry (federal electoral district)|Glengarry]]
| parliament2 = Canadian
| term_start2 = 1883
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| constituency3 = [[Glengarry (provincial electoral district)|Glengarry]]
| party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Conservative]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1846|9|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Williamstown, Ontario|Williamstown]], [[Glengarry County, Ontario|Glengarry County]], [[Canada West]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1922|3|3|1846|9|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]]
| occupation = Lawyer
| relations =
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage |Janet Macdonald|1880}} * {{marriage |Ella Virginia DeFord|1890}} }}
| children = 1
| allegiance = [[Canadian Militia]]
| battles = [[Fenian Raids]] (1866)
| rank = [[Lieutenant]]
| branch = [[Stormont,_Dundas_and_Glengarry_Highlanders#Fenian_Raids_2|Williamstown Volunteer Infantry]]
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'''Sir Donald Macmaster, 1st Baronet''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|KC}} (3 September 1846 – 3 March 1922) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[lawyer]] and a politician in both Canada and the [[United Kingdom]].
Macmaster was born into a family of [[Scotland|Scottish]] descent in [[Williamstown, Ontario|Williamstown]], [[Glengarry County, Ontario|Glengarry County]], [[Canada West]] (now in eastern [[Ontario]]). During the [[Fenian Raids]] in 1866 he served as a lieutenant in the [[Stormont,_Dundas_and_Glengarry_Highlanders#Fenian_Raids_2|Williamstown Volunteer Infantry]]. He studied law at [[McGill University]], was called to the [[Quebec]] [[bar (law)|bar]] in 1871, and set up practice in [[Montreal]]. Macmaster served as Crown Prosecutor for many cases. He was called to the [[Ontario]] bar and appointed [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1882.
He represented [[Glengarry (provincial electoral district)|Glengarry]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1879 to 1882 and in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative]] member from 1883 to 1887, when he lost his seat.
In 1905, Macmaster emigrated to the [[United Kingdom]] and settled in [[London]], intending to practise in [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] cases, in which he already had considerable experience.
In 1880, he married Janet Macdonald, who died less than three years later. In 1890 he married the [[Americans|American]] Ella Virginia DeFord. Their only son, Donald, was killed in action at the [[Battle of Loos]] while commanding a [[company (military unit)|company]] of the [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders|Cameron Highlanders]] on 25 September 1915.
==Electoral history==
{{1879 Ontario general election/Glengarry}}
==Footnotes==
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*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=4477}}
*{{Ontario MPP biography|
*[http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32957 ''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1883'' JA Gemmill]
*[http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=02221 ''The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography''] [[Henry James Morgan|HJ Morgan]] (1898)
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{{s-bef | before = [[Francis Marnham]] }}
{{s-ttl | title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Chertsey (UK Parliament constituency)|Chertsey]]
| years = [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|1910]]–[[1922 Chertsey by-election|1922]] }}
{{s-aft | after = [[Philip Richardson]] }}
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| title = Oldest Member of Parliament<br />(not [[Father of the House]])
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