James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie

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

Born James Alexander Stewart, the son of Vice Admiral Keith Stewart (who died when James was eleven), he assumed the surname Stewart-Mackenzie after his marriage on 21 May 1817 to Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie ("the Hooded Lassie"), daughter of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth.

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 was then Governor of Ceylon from 1837 to 1841, and was also Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.

He sold the house and grounds of Woodfall Gardens, Glasserton in 1819 to Stair Hathorn-Stewart at the neighbouring Physgill estate.

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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

v t e ←Governors of British Ceylon →

Military Governors of Ceylon	Agnew Stewart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*

Governors of Ceylon	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**

Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*

Persondata
Name	Stewart, James Alexander
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	23 September 1784
Place of birth
Date of death	24 September 1843
Place of death

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