John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie

John Clerk-Maxwell's house at 14 India Street

John Clerk (later Clerk-Maxwell) of Middlebie[1] FRSE (1790-1856) was a Scottish advocate. He inherited the Middlebie estate near Corsock in Galloway. He built a new house on the estate which he called Glenlair, a name which later became used for the estate itself.[2]

He was the brother of Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, brother-in-law of James Wedderburn, and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk-Maxwell.

In the 1830s he is recorded as living at 14 India Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town, which is where James Clerk-Maxwell was born.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF) II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Man Who Changed Everything – the Life of James Clerk Maxwell", pp 186-187, (2007), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  3. ↑ http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83401143&mode=transcription
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