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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = John Frederick
| name = McNair
| honorific_prefix = Major
| honorific_suffix = RA
| image = File:McNair,_John_Frederick.jpg
| birth_date = 1828
| death_date = 1910
| address = Singapore; 19 Abbey Gardens St John's Wood; c/o Messrs Codd & Co 31 Craven Street Strand
| occupation = armed services<br />civil service
| elected_ESL = 1866.04.24
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1866
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Captain in the Royal Artillery, Chief Executive Officer [Executive Engineer 1868]
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
John Frederick Adolphus McNair (23 October 1828, England – 17 May 1910, Brighton, UK). He was a multi-talented civil servant in the service of the Straits Settlements. He was an engineer, superintendent of convicts, manager of public works and a member of the commission for the pacification of Larut following the signing of a peace treaty, in 1874.<br /><br />McNair's childhood was filled with the study of geology. Over time he amassed a large collection of metals. He later had this transported to Madras where he was to begin his first job.<br /><br />In 1846, at the age of 17, McNair left England to take up employment with the British East India Company, (E. I. C.) at Madras, India. McNair studied and was fluent in Hindustani, a skill that would stand him in good stead.<br /><br />From Madras, McNair was transferred to Malacca (part of Straits Settlements in 1853 to be responsible for the Madras Native Artillery reporting to J. B. Westerhout, then the advisor to the government of the Straits Settlements.<br /><br />He was then posted to Singapore, where he took up an appointment as private secretary and aide-de-camp to the Governor of Straits Settlements. In 1857, McNair was appointed Executive Engineer and Superintendent of Convicts in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and he was also in responsible for Public Works and the Oriental Gaol in Singapore.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1881
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = John Frederick
| name = McNair
| honorific_prefix = Major
| honorific_suffix = RA
| image = File:McNair,_John_Frederick.jpg
| birth_date = 1828
| death_date = 1910
| address = Singapore; 19 Abbey Gardens St John's Wood; c/o Messrs Codd & Co 31 Craven Street Strand
| occupation = armed services<br />civil service
| elected_ESL = 1866.04.24
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1866
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Captain in the Royal Artillery, Chief Executive Officer [Executive Engineer 1868]
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
John Frederick Adolphus McNair (23 October 1828, England – 17 May 1910, Brighton, UK). He was a multi-talented civil servant in the service of the Straits Settlements. He was an engineer, superintendent of convicts, manager of public works and a member of the commission for the pacification of Larut following the signing of a peace treaty, in 1874.<br /><br />McNair's childhood was filled with the study of geology. Over time he amassed a large collection of metals. He later had this transported to Madras where he was to begin his first job.<br /><br />In 1846, at the age of 17, McNair left England to take up employment with the British East India Company, (E. I. C.) at Madras, India. McNair studied and was fluent in Hindustani, a skill that would stand him in good stead.<br /><br />From Madras, McNair was transferred to Malacca (part of Straits Settlements in 1853 to be responsible for the Madras Native Artillery reporting to J. B. Westerhout, then the advisor to the government of the Straits Settlements.<br /><br />He was then posted to Singapore, where he took up an appointment as private secretary and aide-de-camp to the Governor of Straits Settlements. In 1857, McNair was appointed Executive Engineer and Superintendent of Convicts in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and he was also in responsible for Public Works and the Oriental Gaol in Singapore.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1881
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===