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RARE "Commissioner for South Australia" William Mackinnon Signed Free Frank:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Commissioner for South Australia" William Alexander Mackinnon Hand Signed Free Frank.
August 1789 – 30 April 1870) was a British politician and a colonisation
commissioner for South Australia. He was
born in Broadstairs, Kent in 1789 and educated at St John's College,
Cambridge. He was the eldest son of William Mackinnon of Antigua and Harriet (née Frye)
Mackinnon, a daughter of Francis Frye of Antigua.
He was a beneficiary of slavery in the British West Indies. He
succeeded in 1809 as the 33rd Chief of the Clan Mackinnon. A Whig, he
was Member of to 1820, for Lymington from
1831 to 1832 and from 1835 to 1852, and for Rye from
1853 to 1865. He was a signatory of the third (of four)
annual report of the Colonisation Commissioners of South Australia. At
the 1852 general
election he was defeated in Lymington, but his son William had
been elected in Rye. However, a petition was lodged against the younger Mackinnon's
election, and in May 1853 it was declared void. The elder Mackinnon
successfully contested the resulting by-election on 23 May 1853. On his
retirement in 1865 the seat was taken by his son, Lauchlan Bellingham.
Again, treating was alleged. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of
Middlesex. Some of his parliamentary work concerned animal
welfare and in 1858 he chaired the AGM of the RSPCA, having
been appointed vice chair in 1837. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society in 1827, submitting a paper on the absorption
of atmospheric moisture by the state of chalk and limestone. He
was also invested as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
He was chairman of the Furness Iron and Steel Co at its inauguration in 1866.
His three sons were also shareholders. He was a director of the Elan Valley
Railway He wrote three books, "Thoughts on the currency
question", "Public Opinion" and "The history of civilisation"
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