Christopher MacEvoy Jr. (1760 – 1838) was a Danish merchant, landowner and planter. He was born in the

Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies () or Danish Virgin Islands () or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with , Saint John () with , Saint Croix with , and Water Island. The islands of St ...

, where MacEvoy owned the Whim plantation, now a museum, on St. Croix. He later moved to

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

where he established a trading house as well as a sugar refinery at

Gammel Strand Gammel Strand (modern Danish for "old beach"; originally meant "the old shoreline", i.e. prior to land reclamations) is a street and public square in central Copenhagen, Denmark. On the south side it borders on the narrow Slotsholmens Canal wh ...

. He owned

Bernstorff Palace Bernstorff Palace () in Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, was built in the middle of the 18th century for Foreign Minister Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. It remained in the possession of the Bernstorff, Bernstorff family until 1812. In 18 ...

Charlottenlund Charlottenlund is a suburban area on the coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the administrative seat of Gentofte Municipality. Bordered to the east by the Øresund, to the South by Hellerup and to the north by Klampenborg, it is one of the ...

from 1817 and the

Dehn Mansion The Dehn Mansion is one of two identical but mirror-imag Rococo architecture, Rococo-style townhouse, town mansions on Bredgade, flanking the entrance to Amalienborg via Frederiksgade, in the Frederiksstaden district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It tak ...

in Copenhagen from 1818.

Biography

MacEvoy was born in 1760 on Saint Croix in the

, the son of Christopher MacEvoy Sr. and Mary Markoe. He inherited the Whim plantation at

Frederiksted Frederiksted ( Danish for "Frederik's Place") is both a town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It is a grid-planned city, designed by surveyor Jens Beckfor, originally to 14x14 blocks but built 7x7 t ...

(now a museum) on St. Croix and lived in England for a few years before settling in

. He owned a property at

29 (then Ved Stranden 4) where he also operated a sugar refinery in the courtyard. The buildings were destroyed in the

Copenhagen Fire of 1795 The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 (''Københavns brand 1795'') started on Friday, 5 June 1795, at or around 3 pm by the Navy's old base south east of Kongens Nytorv on Gammelholm, in the Navy's magazine for coal and timber, the so-called Dellehave. As t ...

but subsequently rebuilt. He purchased

north of Copenhagen in 1817. He died on the estate in 1839.

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