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Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank

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Maconochie was a keen agriculturist. He was the anonymous author of ‘Directions for Preparing Manure from Peat, and Instruction for Foresters,’ which was reprinted in 1815, Edinburgh, and again in 1842, Edinburgh. His ‘Considerations on the Introduction of Jury Trial in Civil Causes into Scotland’
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on 4 September 1804, and was constituted one of the three lords commissioners of the newly appointed jury court on 9 May 1815. His health, however, was poor, and he took little part in the proceedings of the new court, which was opened for the first time on 22 January 1816.
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was published anonymously in 1814, Edinburgh; 2nd edit. Edinburgh, 1815. His ‘Essay on the Origin and Structure of the European Legislatures’ appeared in two parts in the first volume (1788) of the
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in the University of Edinburgh on 16 July 1779; and on 18 December following was elected treasurer of the
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He married, on 11 November 1774, Elizabeth, third daughter of Robert Welwood of Garvock and Pitliver,
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on 14 June 1816, aged 68, and was buried in the private burial-ground of his house and estate, the
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in the same shire, was born on 26 January 1748. He was educated privately by
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James Allan, sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, who died unmarried in 1845; and
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Cameo of Allan Maconochie, 1791, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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as dean of the faculty in January 1796. He was then living at 5
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Maconochie also raised his kinsman, the future penal reformer
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Scottish advocate, jurist, and agriculturalist (1748–1816)
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on 8 December 1770 and was admitted as a student of
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The only son of Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank,
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People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
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Robert Dighton
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Alexander Adam
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writer to the signet
William Creech
John Bruce
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general assembly
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Dunfermline
public law
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