Alexander Muir Mackenzie

Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie, 1st Baronet FRSE (1764-1835) was a Scottish advocate and landowner.

Life

He was born Alexander Muir in Perthshire on 2 March 1764 the son of George Muir of Cassencarrie House, in Kirkmabreck near Creetown[1] and his wife, the Hon Margaret MacKenzie of Delvine.[2]

He trained in Law and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1788. In 1793 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dugald Stewart, Dr James Gregory and Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.[3] In 1805 he inherited the estates of Delvine following the death of his wife’s great uncle, John MacKenzie of Delvine. He was thereafter known as Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie.[4]

He died on 11 March 1835.

Family

In 1787 he married Jane Murray, daughter of Sir Robert Murray, 6th baronet of Dunerne.[5]

His only son, and successor was Sir John William Pitt Muir-MacKenzie (1806-1855)[6], named in deference to William Pitt the Younger, the then prime minister. He also had eight daughters.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/894694
  2. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Alexander-Muir-Mackenzie-1st-Baronet-of-Delvine/6000000019973350970
  3. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p30818.htm#i308173
  5. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p30818.htm#i308173
  6. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-William-Pitt-Muir-Mackenzie-2nd-Baronet/6000000019975820039

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