James Macintosh [SEP] position held
James Macintosh
James Macintosh (21 December 1830 – 16 April 1904) was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Macintosh was born in 1830 at Kilniver, south of Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. He came to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1853 and took up farming on the Saltwater River. In 1855, he married Isabella M'Crae in 1855, with whom he was to have seven sons and one daughter. In the same year, he purchased a farm at Yangardook, and in 1867, he
family of Stewart of Gairntully. For some years from 1785 he was employed in the office of Mr. Davidson, deputy-keeper of the signet and crown agent.
On 30 November 1786 Macintosh was elected to the honorary office of clerk for the Gaelic language to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and held it until 1789. In 1789 James Brown, the sole representative of the nonjuring episcopal clergy of Scotland, made Macintosh as his successor, ordaining him deacon in June 1789, and later priest.
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