James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie

James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (23 September 1784 – 24 September 1843), was a Scottish politician and British colonial administrator.

James Stewart-Mackenzie
7th Governor of British Ceylon
In office
7 November 1837 – 15 April 1841
MonarchQueen Victoria
Preceded byRobert Wilmot-Horton
Succeeded byColin Campbell
Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty
In office
1832–1837
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byThomas Mackenzie
Member of Parliament for Ross-shire
In office
1831–1832
Preceded bySir James Wemyss Mackenzie
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
James Alexander Stewart

(1784-09-23)23 September 1784
Died24 September 1843(1843-09-24) (aged 59)
Spouse(s)
Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie
(m. 1817; his death 1843)
RelationsAlexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway (grandfather)
Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar (grandfather)
Children5, including Louisa
ParentsGeorgina Isabella d'Aguilar
Keith Stewart

Early life

He was born James Alexander Stewart on 23 September 1784.[1] James was the son of the former Georgina Isabella d'Aguilar and Vice Admiral The Hon. Keith Stewart, who died when he was eleven. His younger brother was Lt. Leveson Douglas Stewart (the father of John Stewart of Nateby Hall). Following his father's death, his mother married secondly, in 1797, Lt.-Col. Richard Fitzgerald, who was killed in action at the Battle of Waterloo.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and the former Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald).[3] His maternal grandfather was Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar.[4]

Career

Stewart-Mackenzie was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Ross-shire in 1831. When that constituency was abolished in 1832, he was elected for the new Ross and Cromarty, serving until 1837.[1]

He left the House of Commons to become British governor of Ceylon from March 1837 to 1840, and then Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (based in Corfu) from December 1840 to 1843.[1]

Personal life

After his marriage on 21 May 1817 to Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie ("the Hooded Lassie"), former wife of Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and daughter of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, whose title had become extinct when his four sons all predeceased him), he assumed the additional surname of Mackenzie. Mary's younger sister, Helen Anne Mackenzie, was the wife of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie.[5][6] In 1819, Stewart-Mackenzie sold the house and grounds of Woodfall Gardens, Glasserton to Stair Hathorn-Stewart at the neighboring Physgill estate. Together, James and Mary were the parents of:[7]

  • Keith William Stewart-MacKenzie (1818–1881), who married Hannah Charlotte Hope-Vere, a daughter of James Joseph Hope-Vere and Lady Elizabeth Hay (a daughter George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale). After her death in 1868, he married Alicia Almira Seymour Bell, daughter of Robert Henry Bell of Bellbrook, in 1871.[8]
  • Mary Frances Stewart-Mackenzie (1819–1913), who married Philip Anstruther, son of Col. Robert Anstruther, in 1838.[9]
  • Caroline Susan Stewart-Mackenzie (1822–1867), who married John Berney Petre, son of Jack Petre and Hon. Catherine Harbord (daughter of Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield), in 1844.[7]
  • George Augustus Frederick Wellington Stewart-Mackenzie (1824–1852), who married Maria Louisa Marriott, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Thomas Marriott, in 1850.[10]
  • Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie (1827–1903), who married Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton.[11]

Stewart-Mackenzie died on 24 September 1843. His widow died on 28 November 1862 and was buried at Fortrose.[12]

Descendants

Through his eldest son Keith, he was a grandfather of James Alexander Francis Humberston Mackenzie, who was created Baron Seaforth in 1921.

Through his daughter Louisa, he was a grandfather of Hon. Mary Florence Baring (1860–1902),[13] married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, becoming the Marchioness of Northampton.[14][15]

References
  1. Fisher, David R. "STEWART MACKENZIE, James Alexander (1784-1843), of Brahan Castle, nr. Dingwall, Ross". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  2. Booth (bookseller.), John (1817). The Battle of Waterloo: Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, Containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, with Circumstantial Details Relative to the Battles, from a Variety of Original and Authentic Sources, with Connected Official and Private Documents, Forming an Historical Record by Those who Had the Honour to Share in the Operations of the Campaign of the Netherlands, 1815. J. Booth. p. 306. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. "Galloway, Earl of (S, 1623)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  4. "Baron d'Aguilar, Portuguese Baron of the Holy Roman Empire". www.twickenham-museum.org.uk. Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon (1904). Memories. Blackwood. p. 28. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  6. The Scots Magazine. Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. 1821. p. 189. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  7. Lodge, Edmund; Innes, Anne; Innes, Eliza; Innes, Maria (1856). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility ... Saunders and Otley. p. 251. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  8. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets. Dean & Son, Limited. 1902. p. 352. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  9. Drawings, British Museum Department of Prints and; Howe, Edward Russell James Gambier (1903). Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Order of the Trustees, Sold at the British Museum. p. 21. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  10. Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 887. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  11. "Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  12. "Mary Elizabeth Frederica Stewart-Mackenzie (1783–1862), Lady Hood". artuk.org. Art UK. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  13. Fielding, Kenneth J. (2004). "Ashburton, Louisa Lady". In Cumming, Mark (ed.). The Carlyle Encyclopedia. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-0-8386-3792-0.
  14. McDonald 2006, p. 710.
  15. "Obituary". The Times. London, England. 3 June 1902. p. 10. Retrieved 20 July 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie		 Member of Parliament for Ross-shire
1831–1832		 Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty
1832–1837		 Succeeded by
Thomas Mackenzie
Political offices
Preceded by
Robert Wilmot-Horton		 Governor of Ceylon
1837–1841		 Succeeded by
Colin Campbell
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