James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = James Stewart-Mackenzie

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| image = File:James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie.jpg

| order = 7th

| office = Governor of British Ceylon

| monarch = Queen Victoria

| term_start = 7 November 1837

| term_end = 15 April 1841

| predecessor = Robert Wilmot-Horton

| successor = Colin Campbell

| office1 = Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty

| term_start1 = 1832

| term_end1 = 1837

| predecessor1 = New constituency

| successor1 = Thomas Mackenzie

| office2 = Member of Parliament for Ross-shire

| term_start2 = 1831

| term_end2 = 1832

| predecessor2 = Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie

| successor2 = Constituency abolished

| birth_name = James Alexander Stewart

| birth_date = {{birth date|1784|09|23|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1843|09|24|1784|09|23|df=y}}

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| parents = Georgina Isabella d'Aguilar
Keith Stewart

| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie|21 May 1817}}

| children = 5, including Louisa

| relations = Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway (grandfather)
Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar (grandfather)

}}

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

Early life

He was born James Alexander Stewart on 23 September 1784. 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.{{cite book |last1=Booth (bookseller.) |first1=John |title=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 |date=1817 |publisher=J. Booth |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dvVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA306|language=en}}

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).{{cite web|title=Galloway, Earl of (S, 1623)|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/galloway1623.htm|website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk|publisher=Heraldic Media Limited|access-date=14 February 2017}} His maternal grandfather was Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar.{{cite web |title=Baron d'Aguilar, Portuguese Baron of the Holy Roman Empire |url=http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=305&ctid=1&cid=9 |website=www.twickenham-museum.org.uk |publisher=Twickenham Museum |access-date=5 June 2020}}

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.

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.{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=David R. |title=STEWART MACKENZIE, James Alexander (1784-1843), of Brahan Castle, nr. Dingwall, Ross. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/stewart-mackenzie-james-1784-1843 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=5 June 2020}}

Personal life

After his marriage on 21 May 1817 to Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie ("the Hooded Lassie"), widow 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.{{cite book |last1=Cumming |first1=Constance Frederica Gordon |title=Memories |date=1904 |publisher=Blackwood |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWc-HKPsxgAC&pg=PA28|language=en}}{{cite book |title=The Scots Magazine |date=1821 |publisher=Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTczAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA189|language=en}} 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:

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.{{cite book |title=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 |date=1902 |publisher=Dean & Son, Limited |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA352|language=en}}
Mary Frances Stewart-Mackenzie (1819–1913), who married Philip Anstruther, son of Col. Robert Anstruther, in 1838.{{cite book |last1=Drawings |first1=British Museum Department of Prints and |last2=Howe |first2=Edward Russell James Gambier |title=Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks |date=1903 |publisher=Order of the Trustees, Sold at the British Museum |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-ctAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA21|language=en}}
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.{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |last2=Innes |first2=Anne |last3=Innes |first3=Eliza |last4=Innes |first4=Maria |title=The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility ... |date=1856 |publisher=Saunders and Otley |page=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRIwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA251|language=en}}
George Augustus Frederick Wellington Stewart-Mackenzie (1824–1852), who married Maria Louisa Marriott, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Thomas Marriott, in 1850.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Harrison |page=887 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmh2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA887|language=en}}
Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie (1827–1903), who married Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton.{{cite web |title=Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/ashburton1835.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234613/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ashburton1835.htm |url-status=live }}

Stewart-Mackenzie died on 24 September 1843. His widow died on 28 November 1862 and was buried at Fortrose.{{cite web |title=Mary Elizabeth Frederica Stewart-Mackenzie (1783–1862), Lady Hood |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mary-elizabeth-frederica-stewart-mackenzie-17831862-lady-hood-166722 |website=artuk.org |publisher=Art UK |access-date=5 June 2020 |language=en}}

=Descendants=

Through his eldest son Keith, he was a grandfather of James Alexander Francis Humberston Mackenzie, who was created Baron Seaforth in 1921, and of Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier, society hostess and politician.

Through his daughter Louisa, he was a grandfather of Hon. Mary Florence Baring (1860–1902),{{cite book|last=Fielding|first=Kenneth J.|editor-last=Cumming|editor-first=Mark|title=The Carlyle Encyclopedia|chapter=Ashburton, Louisa Lady|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Nvdx-4-CzoC&pg=PA22|year=2004|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3792-0|pages=22–23}} married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, becoming the Marchioness of Northampton.{{cite book|last=McDonald|first=Lynn|title=Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yuh0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA710|year=2006|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|location=Waterloo, Ontario, Canada|isbn=978-0-88920-916-9 |page=710}}{{cite news|title=Obituary|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12496271/obituary_the_times_london_england_3/|newspaper=The Times|date=3 June 1902|location=London, England|page=10|via = Newspapers.com}}

References

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| title = Member of Parliament for Ross-shire

| years = 1831–1832

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| title = Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty

| years = 1832–1837

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before=Robert Wilmot-Horton|

title=Governor of Ceylon|

after=Colin Campbell|