Sir George Makgill, 9th Baronet
George Makgill, 9th Baronet of Kemback and Fingask and 9th Viscount of Oxfuird FRSE (1812-1878) was a Scottish peer.
Life
He was born on 23 December 1812 the son of John Makgill of Kemback and Fingask and his wife Eliza Dalgleish.[1]
In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Archibald Campbell Swinton. He resigned from the Society in 1857.[2]
In the 1850s he had an Edinburgh townhouse at 12 Claremont Crescent in the New Town.[3]
He died on 21 September 1878.
Family
His sister Jane married Robert Haldane WS.
In 1833 he married Harriet Strettell (d.1890), daughter of Amos Strettell. They were parents to Captain John Makgill, George Makgill and Arthur Makgill, and grandparents to George Makgill.[4]
References
- ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p35488.htm#i354875
- ^ 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.
- ^ Edoinburgh Post Office Directory 1850-1
- ^ https://www.geni.com/people/George-Makgill-de-jure-9th-Viscount-of-Oxfuird/6000000016321540405
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