Person Mackinnon; William Alexander (1784 - 1870); politician and merchant Mackinnon William Alexander politician and merchant 1784 - 1870 British Male Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom 02 August 1784 17840802 Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom 30 April 1870 18700430 Burial: Acrise Park, Kent

Palmerstown, County Mayo, Ireland Acrise Park, Acrise, Binfield, Kent; Newtown Park, Newtown, Hampshire; Asgill House, Asgill, Surrey; Portswood House, Hampshire (1827); 4 Hyde Park Place, London (1827)

History 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 Son of William Mackinnon and Francis nee Frye. Married (1812) Emma Mary Palmer Fellow 14/06/1827 42 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] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 2 Aug 1784 - 30 Apr 1870 NA2972 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/12/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM yes http://viaf.org/viaf/42892328 50d60b2f-cefc-43e8-8365-3b59124b93be