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John Philip Carmichael
Minister of Finance of Eswatini
John Philip Carmichael was politician, businessman and botanist from Swaziland.
He was born on 1 August 1947.[1] His forefathers settled to Swaziland from Scotland in 1800s. He was the owner and mastermind behind the establishment of Summerfield Botanical Gardens in 1980s.[2]
Carmichael was minister of housing and urban development from 1993 to 1998.[3] He was the minister of finance of Swaziland from November 1998 to February 2001.[4] He was then appointed as minister of education.[5][6]
Carmichael died in 2019.[7]