Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet, was a British administrator in India. He was the acting Governor-General of Bengal from 1785 to 1786.
Captain John Macpherson by anonymous
General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the lead
Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet
…suggestions of a subordinate, Jonathan Duncan. Macpherson moreover did nothing to stop the gross corruption indulged in by the company's officials, and Lord Cornwallis, an impartial critic, denounces his government as 'a system of the dirtiest jobbery'. Shortly after Macpherson's accession to the supreme power, the…
Jemima, Countess Cornwallis
Portrait of Sir Henry Clinton by John Smart, c. 1777
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull
Surrender of Cornwallis. At York-town, VA Oct. 1781 by Nathaniel Currier (D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts)