MACKINTOSH, Sir James (1765-1832). | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 24 Oct. 1765, 1st s. of Capt. John Mackintosh of Kyllachie, Inverness and Marjory, da. of Alexander Macgillivray. HP Commons, 1790-1820, iv. 498 incorrectly describes him as the only son of John Mackintosh; but he had a younger brother John (1769-1800). educ. Fortrose acad. 1775; King’s Coll. Aberdeen 1780; Edinburgh Univ. 1784, MD 1787; L. Inn 1790, called 1795. m. (1) 8 Apr. 1789, Catherine (d. 8 Apr. 1797), sis. of Daniel Stuart, editor of the Morning Post, 1s. d.v.p. 3da.; (2) 10 Apr. 1798, Catherine, da. of John Bartlett Allen of Cresselly, Pemb., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1788; Kntd. 21 Dec. 1803. d. 30 May 1832.

Offices Held

Recorder, Bombay 1803 – 11; judge of vice admiralty ct. Bombay 1806 – 11; professor of law, Haileybury Coll. 1818 – 24; PC 16 Nov. 1827; commr. bd. of control Dec. 1830 – d.

Rect. Glasgow Univ. 1823 – 25.

Parlimentarian

MACKINTOSH, Sir James (1765-1832).

Notes

The latest biography is P. O’Leary, Sir James Mackintosh: the Whig Cicero (1989), which, though useful in many respects, is weak on politics and carries no scholarly apparatus. See also Mems. of Sir James Mackintosh ed. R.J. Mackintosh (1836) and J. Rendall, ‘The Political Ideas and Activities of Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832): a Study in Whiggism between 1789 and 1832’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1972). This article draws extensively on Mackintosh’s journals, which are in the form of letters to his wife, 1820, 1821-3, 1825-8 (Add. 52444, 52445, 52447).

Author

D.R.F.

Volume

Commons 1820-1832

Web Title

MACKINTOSH, Sir James (1765-1832)

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Oxford 1644

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