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Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank

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from 1818 to 1819. He made his Parliamentary debut during a period of considerable unrest in both Scotland and England in 1817, choosing to mark it by announcing the existence of a seditious conspiracy of weavers in the suburbs of Glasgow. The ensuing prosecutions were spectacularly unsuccessful,
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better puns. When he quizzed one advocate as to the difference between 'likewise and also', he received the reply that just as his father had been Lord Meadowbank, so was he, 'also but not likewise'.
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however, and caused considerable embarrassment, both to the government and to Maconochie himself, who, as Lord Advocate, was directly responsible.
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In part because of his rather indifferent record, especially after further embarrassment in the
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and served as its first President. This body provided funds for "the relief of decayed actors".
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Mary Anne Maconochie, who married Steuart Bayley Hare of Calderhall, father of Lt Col Hare.
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Robert Blair Maconochie (b. 21 May 1814, died 4 October 1863) who married Charlotte Joanna
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1819, and resigned in 1843. With the same title as his father, he was subject of one of
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Lord Meadowbank, engraved by Henry Hoppner Meyer, after a painting by Allen William
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Maconochie was born on 2 March 1777 in "Society" a district in south Edinburgh,
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Maconochie-Welwood died on 30 November 1861 at Meadowbank House (now named
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Grave of son Henry Dundas Maconochie, who died 1842 before his father
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contributions in Parliament by Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
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In 1805 he married Anne Blair the eldest daughter of Lord President
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Grave of daughters Isabella, Anne and Elizabeth at Kirknewton House
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In February 1827 he co-founded the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund with
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Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, Angus (July 2006).
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In the 1830s, his city address is listed as 13 Royal Circus
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Allan Alexander Maconochie Welwood of Meadowbank and Garvock
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Lord Meadowbank's Edinburgh townhouse at 13 Royal Circus
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from which he took the name of his title was located in
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Henry Dundas Maconochie-Welwood, b. 1820, died 1852 in
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The Right Honourable
FRSE
FSAS

Sir Henry Raeburn
Lord of session and justiciary
Member of Parliament
Sir John Anstruther
Sir William Rae, Bt.
Anstruther Burghs
John Leslie Foster
Richard Wellesley
John Leslie Foster
John Copley
John Leslie Foster
Yarmouth
Lord Advocate
Archibald Colquhoun
Sir William Rae, Bt.
Solicitor General for Scotland
David Monypenny
James Wedderburn
Sheriff of Haddington
John Burnett
Midlothian
Scotland
Great Britain
Kirknewton
West Lothian
United Kingdom

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