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Authorised form of nameMackintosh; Sir; James (1765 - 1832)
Dates1765 - 1832
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAldourie, on the bank of Loch Ness, near Inverness, Inverness-shire
Date of birth24 October 1765
Place of deathHis house in Langham Place, London
Date of death30 May 1832
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Hampstead, London
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/11/1813
RelationshipsEldest 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
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1832-1833 No 11 pp 147-148
Notes:
Verify that Langham Place is in London.
CodeNA7439
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002898MacKintosh, Sir Jamesnd
EC/1813/07Mackintosh, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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