John McMahon Biography

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Colonel Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet (c. 1754 – 12 September 1817) was a British politician and Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1811â??1817.

McMahon was a British Army officer, and served as a Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh from 1802 to 1812. He was Paymaster of Widows Pensions in 1812.
He was Keeper of the Privy Purse, Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Secretary to the Duke of Cornwall.
A proposal that he receive a salary of £2,000 as Private Secretary was rejected by Parliament in 1812.

McMahon was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1812, and died in 1817, having been made a Baronet shortly before his death as Baronet McMahon of Ashley Manor, Hampshire.

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