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Allan Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank and Garvock
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...
(1806–1885) was a Scottish advocate and amateur botanist. He was Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow University. In legal documents he is referred to as A. A. Maconochie.


Life

He was born in 1806 the eldest son of
Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank The Right Honourable Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank of Garvock and Pitliver FRSE FSA (Scot) (2 March 1777–30 November 1861), was a Scottish advocate, judge, landowner and politician. After 1854 he took the surname Maconochie-Welwood. Li ...
and Anne Blair (daughter of the law lord
Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun Robert Blair of Avontoun FRSE (1741–1811) was a Scottish advocate and judge who served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1789 to 1806, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1801 to 1808, and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1808 ...
). He qualified as an advocate in 1829. In 1840 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...
his proposer being
Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a British physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at ...
. From 1843 to 1855 he was Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow University In 1855 he received an honorary doctorate (LLD) from Glasgow University. In later life he adopted the name Maconochie-Welwood. He died on 29 May 1885.


Family

He married twice: in 1836 to Ellen Wiggin and secondly in 1859 to Lady Margaret Penny (a widow).


References

1806 births 1885 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish lawyers 19th-century Scottish botanists {{Scotland-bio-stub