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James Macartney (1692–1770), James Macartney
James Macartney may refer to: * James MacCartney (physician), Scottish apothecary active in 1590s Edinburgh * James Macartney (anatomist) (1770–1843), Irish anatomist * James Macartney (died 1727), Irish judge and MP for Belfast 1692–1703 * James Macartney (1692–1770) James Macartney (1692 – 24 March 1770) was an Irish politician. He was the only son of James Macartney (died 1727), judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), and his second wife Alice Cuffe, daughter of Sir James Cuffe (died 1678). T ..., Irish MP for Longford Borough 1713–27 and Granard 1727–60 * Jim Macartney (1911–1977), Australian newspaper editor See also * James McCartney (other) {{hndis, Macartney, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James MacCartney (physician)
James MacCartney was a Scottish medical practitioner and apothecary in Edinburgh in the 1590s who collected information for the English diplomat Robert Bowes. Career MacCartney was a relation of Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield. He was usually known as "Dr MacCartney" and sometimes given the codename "Tertius". He signed his letters to Bowes with a sketch of a flower with three petals. In September 1595 MacCartney wrote to Bowes about the Catholic earls, with the news that Elizabeth Douglas, Countess of Erroll was now allowed by James VI to rebuild Old Slains Castle, and the Earl of Huntly would be able to do the same at Huntly Castle if stonemasons were available. Both castles had recently been slighted on royal orders. Margaret Douglas, Countess of Bothwell, whose husband Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell was a rebel, had been shown some favour by the king at Hamilton Palace. MacCartney sent copies of verses made at court, including the King's own lines about William F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Macartney (anatomist)
James Macartney (born 8 March 1770 in Armagh, died 6 March 1843 in Dublin) was an anatomist. He began life as an Irish volunteer in 1780, and was afterwards educated at the endowed classical school at Armagh, and then at a private school. He was associated for a time with the Sheares brothers and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the United Irishmen but, being dissatisfied with their programme, he cut himself adrift and began to study medicine. Biography He apprenticed himself to William Hartigan (1756?–1812) on 10 Feb. 1793, his master being president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1797. Macartney also entered as a pupil in the college school, Mercer Street, Dublin, where he made some dissections for the museum, and he attended the Lock hospital and the Dublin dispensary. In 1796 he came to London to attend the Hunterian or Great Windmill Street school of medicine, and he became an occasional pupil at St. Thomas's and Guy's hospitals. He also attended the lectures of Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Macartney (died 1727)
James Macartney (1651/3–16 December 1727) was an Irish lawyer, judge and politician, notable mainly for presiding at the Islandmagee witch trial of 1711, which was apparently the last such trial in Ireland. Biography He was the eldest son of George Macartney, surveyor of Belfast, and his first wife Jane Calderwood; George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, was descended from his younger brother. He entered Middle Temple in 1671 and the King's Inn in 1677. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Belfast from 1692 to 1693 and from 1695 to 1699 and in 1701 was made second justice of the Court of King's Bench. He was removed from the Bench in 1711 due to his political allegiance but reappointed in 1714, and was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas the same year. Witch trials Historians have criticised the credulity he displayed at the Islandmagee witchcraft trials of 1711, which were the last such trials to be held in Ireland. Eight women were charged with bewitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Macartney (1692–1770)
James Macartney (1692 – 24 March 1770) was an Irish politician. He was the only son of James Macartney (died 1727), judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), and his second wife Alice Cuffe, daughter of Sir James Cuffe (died 1678). Through his maternal grandmother Alice Aungier he was coheir to the Earl of Longford. Family He married Catherine, the third daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and his third wife Anne Lovett, and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, including : * Francis Macartney MP, who died in 1759, before his father, without issue *Coote, who died in 1748, without issue *Martha, who married William Henry Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton and had issue, including George Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton *Frances Greville ( c.1724-1789), the poet and author of the "Prayer for Indifference"; she married the politician Fulke Greville and was the mother of four children, including the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Macartney
James Edward Macartney (15 July 1911 – 21 September 1977) was an Australian newspaper editor and executive from Perth, Western Australia. He served for periods as editor of the ''Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), Daily News'' and ''The West Australian'', and was later managing director of Seven West Media, West Australian Newspapers Ltd. (WAN) from 1962 to 1969. Macartney was born in Coolgardie, Western Australia, to Constance May (née Griffith) and Edward Hussey Burgh Macartney. His father, a surveyor, was a grandson of Hussey Macartney, a long-serving Dean of Melbourne. Macartney attended Hale School, The High School in Perth, and went on to the University of Western Australia, where he edited two student publications, ''Prosh (University of Western Australia), Sruss-Sruss'' and ''Pelican (magazine), Pelican''. He was Rustication (academia), sent down from the university after antagonising its authorities. Macartney joined ''The West Australian'' in 1928, and the followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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