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{{short description|Scottish evangelical Quaker and philanthropist}}
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'''Annie Parlane MacPherson''' (1833 – 27 November 1904) was a Scottish [[evangelical]] [[Quaker]] and philanthropist who founded [[Home Children]], which sent poor and orphaned children to Canada and other colonies.<ref>British Home Children descendants Annie Macpherson {{Cite web |url=http://www.britishhomechildren.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190%3Aannie-macpherson&catid=27%3Asending-agency-founders&Itemid=2 |title=Annie Macpherson |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725102229/http://www.britishhomechildren.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=190%3Aannie-macpherson&catid=27%3Asending-agency-founders&Itemid=2 |url-status=bot: unknown }} British Home Children.</ref>
==Biography==
She was born in [[Campsie, Stirlingshire|Campsie]], by [[Milton, Stirlingshire|Milton]], [[Stirlingshire]], and educated in [[Glasgow]] and at the [[Home and Colonial Training College]] in [[Gray's Inn Road]], [[London]]. After her father died, she moved to Cambridge, but soon after, returned to [[London]]. Touched by the poverty in the [[East End of London]] in 1868, she opened the Home of Industry at 60 [[Commercial Road]] in Spitalfield.<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 September 2020|title=Home Children Guide - Annie Macpherson|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/home-children-guide/Pages/annie-macpherson.aspx|url-status=live|website=Library and Archives Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214234619/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca:80/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/home-children-guide/Pages/annie-macpherson.aspx |archive-date=14 December 2015 }}</ref>
She influenced members of the [[Scottish Christian Union]], a [[Temperance movement|temperance]] association of women, independent but affiliated to the [[White Ribbon Association|British Women's Temperance Association]], such as Mary White and [[Anne Bryson Sutherland|Anne Bryson]], who took her ideas back to influence women activists in Glasgow,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smitley|first=Megan K.|url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1488/|title='Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914.|publisher=University of Glasgow|year=2002|location=Glasgow|pages=140}}</ref> and [[Margaret Catherine Blaikie]], who established the Emigration Home for Destitute Children in Lauriston Lane, [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="TheWoman-1895">{{cite journal |title=Mrs. Margaret c. Blaikie (Wife of the Rev. Professor Blaikie, D.D., New College). |journal=The Woman at Home |date=1895 |volume=4 |pages=263–65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VtIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=Warwick Magazine Company |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
In the 1870s, she organised for Home children to be sent to Canada from her home in London, and also had arrangements with [[Barnardo's|Dr Barnardo's Homes]] in London, [[Quarriers]] homes in Scotland, and [[Ellen Smyly|Smyly homes]] in [[Dublin]], Ireland<ref>[http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/smyly.html Young Immigrants to Canada] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826025227/http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/smyly.html |date=26 August 2011 }} Smyly Homes of Dublin, Ireland.</ref> similar to arrangements with English and Scottish homes.<ref name="marjorie">''The golden bridge: young immigrants to Canada, 1833–1939'' By Marjorie Kohli</ref>
In Canada, she had set up a number of Homes, ''Marchmont'', ''Galt'' in [[Ontario]] and in [[Knowlton, Quebec|Knowlton]], [[Quebec]]<ref>''Gods answers, a record of Miss Annie Macphersons work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada'' by Clara M.S. Lowe, (Introduction by )Rev. John Macpherson, LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO (1882)</ref>
The Doyle Report of 1875 into the emigration of children from these homes cast a shadow over the process of exporting children although it acknowledged the benevolent motives of MacPherson and others.<ref>{{cite web | website=Families of British Home Children | title=Doyle's Report on Macpherson & Rye | date=September 16, 2007 | url=http://www.britishhomechildren.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:doyles-report-on-macpherson-a-rye&catid=24:editor-letters&Itemid=192 | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 22, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322141741/http://www.britishhomechildren.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:doyles-report-on-macpherson-a-rye&catid=24:editor-letters&Itemid=192}}</ref> Her sister, Louisa MacPherson, married Charles Henry Birt, and helped her sister in her mission.<ref name="uwaterloo">{{cite web|url=http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/birt.html|website=retirees.uwaterloo.ca|title=Louisa Birt|accessdate=2019-03-06}}</ref>
In 1873, she established a home in [[Liverpool]] called ''The Sheltering Home''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sheltering Home for Destitute Children, Liverpool, Lancashire|url=http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LiverpoolSheltering/|access-date=2021-12-15|website=www.childrenshomes.org.uk}}</ref>
MacPherson died in 1904.<ref name="oup">{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/50744|title=Macpherson, Annie Parlane (1825–1904), promoter of child emigration : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - oi|website=oxfordindex.oup.com|accessdate=2019-03-06}}</ref>
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