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On 1 November he joined the Victorian Railways where he worked as a clerk. From this time, possibly from a preference for the Gaelic variant of John, he called himself Ian. Articled to E. Guinness, the crown solicitor, in , Macfarlan was admitted as a solicitor by the Supreme Court on 4 May and to the Bar on 4 August. He earned a reputation for wide legal knowledge and telling expository skills that were the more effective for being understated.

Ian Macfarlan KC was an Australian politician who served as the deputy leader of the Victorian Liberal Party in He was briefly commissioned as the.

The contrast with his brother, the socially genial but judicially irascible Sir James Macfarlan , future senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, was marked. One month earlier he had enlisted in the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery; he transferred to the Australian Imperial Force on 7 November and was discharged in December without serving abroad.

In April Macfarlan stood as a National Party candidate and won the by-election for the seat of Brighton in the Legislative Assembly, narrowly defeating the housewives' advocate Eleanor Glencross. Believing that political and professional life should be separate, he accepted no further briefs. He won rapid parliamentary promotion, serving as attorney-general and solicitor-general November December in Sir William McPherson 's ministry.

From September he was deputy-leader of his party in opposition. He returned to the government benches as chief secretary May April and minister in charge of electrical undertakings May July in the Argyle - Allan coalition, but lost the deputy-leadership of the United Australia Party to Sir Robert Menzies in June Again attorney-general July April and solicitor-general July March , he took silk on 27 November He was also a member of the select committee on the shorter working week.

At the elections on 2 March , Macfarlan retained Brighton after a close and bitter contest with Sir Edmund Herring , the unendorsed U. Macfarlan led a cross-bench, country-liberal faction of the U.