| Authorised form of name | Mackintosh; Sir; James (1765 - 1832) |
| Dates | 1765 - 1832 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Aldourie, on the bank of Loch Ness, near Inverness, Inverness-shire |
| Date of birth | 24 October 1765 |
| Place of death | His house in Langham Place, London |
| Date of death | 30 May 1832 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Hampstead, London |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Activity | Education:
Fortrose; King's College, Aberdenn (1780); MD (1787, Edinburgh, dissertation on 'De motu musculari'). President of the Speculative Society and spoke against the slave trade at his first address.
Career:
Worked as a journalist in London (1788); following his marriage to Catherine Stuart in 1789 toured the Low Countries , and in Liege gained first hand knowledge of the revolution in France; on return to england in 1790, became a prominent political writer, defender then critic of he French Revolution in the 1790's; turned to journalism in order to raise money and assist the Whig cause; called to the Bar (1795); Recorder of Bombay (1804-1811); returned to England; MP for Nairn (1813-1818); MP for Knaresborough (1818-1832); Professor of Law, Haileybury College (1818-1824); published 'Dissertation on the progress of ethical philosophy' (1830)
Honours:
Kt 1804
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/11/1813 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of Captain James Mackintosh; married 1) (1789) Catherine Stuart, who died in 1797 and 2) (1798) Catherine, daughter of John Allen; her sisters were married, Elizabeth to Josiah and Louisa to John Wedgwood, sons of Josiah Wedgwood FRS |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1832-1833 No 11 pp 147-148
Notes:
Verify that Langham Place is in London. |
| Code | NA7439 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1813/07 | Mackintosh, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HS/12/26 | Letter, from J[ames] MacKintosh to Sir John Herschel, dated at Great Cumberland St. | 25 February 1831 |
| IM/002898 | MacKintosh, Sir James | 1814 |