| Authorised form of name | Mackinnon; William Alexander (1784 - 1870); politician and merchant |
| Dates | 1784 - 1870 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 02 August 1784 |
| Place of death | Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 30 April 1870 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Acrise Park, Kent |
| Research field | History |
| Activity | Education:
Admitted to Lincoln's Inn (1802) not called to the bar; St John's College, University of Cambridge, BA (1804), MA (1807)
Career:
Chief of clan Mackinnon; MP for Dulwich (1819-1820); MP for Lymington (1831-1832, 1835-1852); unpaid colonisation commissioner for South Australia (1842); Chairman of the UK Insurance Office (1842); Chairman of the Society against Cruelty (1842); MP for Rye (1853-1865); Trustee of Trindad Petroleum Company, Marquise and Hardinghen Iron, Coal and Marble Company, West India Agicultural Company; Director of Elham Valley Railway Company; Chairman of the Furness Iron and Steel Co; patron of the Metropolitan Patent Wood-Pavement Company; owner of 'Mackinnon's estate' in Antigua which used enslaved people for labour
Memberships:
FSA (1820); FRAS; FGS; RSPCA (Chairman); Highland Society; Association for the Encouragement of Literature |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 14/06/1827 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| Relationships | Son of William Mackinnon and Francis nee Frye. Married (1812) Emma Mary Palmer |
| PublishedWorks | https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88068367/ |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Wikipedia; UCL LBS
References:
Malcolm Brown, 'How Not to "Regain Paradise": Henry Bellenden Ker, FRS from 1819 to 1831' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 211-215
'William Alexander Mackinnon', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44859 [accessed 15th July 2020] |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/42892328 |
| Code | NA2972 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/17/351 | Copy letter from John Evans, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. | 17 October 1898 |
| NLB/17/494 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. | 9 November 1898 |
| NLB/19/529 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. | 25 October 1899 |
| NLB/20/136 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. | 9 February 1900 |
| NLB/18/787 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W B Keen, 3 Church Court, Old Jewry, E.C. | 12 May 1899 |
| NLB/57/408 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgate & Co; 18 & 19 Pall Mall, SW 1 | 1 November 1919 |
| NLB/57/504 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgate & Co. | 19 November 1919 |
| NLB/63/579 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgate & Co., 18 & 19 Pall Mall, S.W.1. | 08 November 1922 |
| NLB/67/180 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Fladgate and Co.; 18 Pall Mall, S.W.1. | 8 November 1924 |
| NLB/65/487 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Fladgate and Co.; 18 & 19 Pall Mall, S.W.1. | 6 November 1923 |
| NLB/68/333 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgate and Co.; 18 Pall Mall, S.W.1. | 19 June 1925 |
| NLB/68/832 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgate and Co.; 18 Pall Mall, S.W.1. | 6 November 1925 |
| NLB/69/855 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Fladgata and Co., 18 Pall Mall, SW1 | 2 November 1926 |
| EC/1827/17 | Mackinnon, William Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/19/301 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Few & Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. | 28 July 1899 |
| NLB/20/288 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Chief Accountant, the Bank of England | 13 March 1900 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| MC/1/349 | Letter from [William Alexander] MacKinnon, Warwick House, to [James Hudson, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 3 December 1831 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| AP/13/15 | Unpublished paper, 'On the absorption of atmospheric moisture by the strata of chalk and limestone' by Willm Alexr [William Alexander] Mackinnon | 22 February 1827 |