Alexander Lockhart Explained

Alexander Macdonald Lockhart
Office:Member of Parliament
for Lanarkshire
Term Start:24 July 1837
Term End:23 June 1841
Predecessor:John Maxwell
Successor:William Lockhart
Birth Date:July 1806
Death Date: (aged 55)
Death Place:Galgorm Castle, Galgorm, County Antrim, Ireland
Nationality:British
Party:Conservative

Alexander Macdonald Lockhart; July 1806 - 27 October 1861) was a British Conservative politician and landowner.[1]

Lockhart was born in 1806, the third son of Sir Alexander Lockhart, 1st Baronet (died 1816),[2] himself Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed and a member of the extended Lockharts of Lee family.

Lockhart was elected Conservative MP for Lanarkshire at the 1837 general election on 24 July 1837 and held the seat until the dissolution of the 13th United Kingdom parliament on 23 June 1841.[1] He served as a magistrate.[3]

He had four siblings; two sisters and two older brothers, the latter being Sir Charles Lockhart, second baronet (1799–1832) and Sir Norman Lockhart, third baronet (1802–1849). The fourth baronet, Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart (1845–1870), was his nephew.[4]

He died on 27 October 1861, aged 55,[2] after a few days illness, while visiting John Young at Galgorm Castle, County Antrim.[5]

He was a friend of and advisor to painter Joseph Severn and his family.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of Parliament Online. Alexander Lockhart. 17 July 2020.
  2. Book: The baronetage and knightage. Lockhart - Lineage . 391. https://books.google.com/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA391. Foster . Joseph . 1881 .
  3. Web site: Spirit Licences (Scotland). (Hansard, 4 February 1840) . . 27 July 2020.
  4. Web site: Lockhart . Electric Scotland . 27 July 2020.
  5. Deaths . . 34 . 1741 . 9 November 1861 . 1221.
  6. Grant F. . Scott . 2005 . Sacred Relics: A Discovery of New Severn Letters . . 16 . 3 . 283–295 . 10.1080/10509580500210303. 170095102 .