Donald Maclean (1800 – 21 March 1874) was a British

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and member of parliament. The son of Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean, of

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, who later became Clan Chief of Clan Maclean and inherited a baronetcy, Maclean was educated at

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and

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. In 1823 he was elected as the first

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of the newly created Oxford Union, graduated BA in 1823, and was

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from

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in 1827. From 1835 to 1847 he was one of the two members of parliament for the City of Oxford constituency, and in 1844 was awarded the degree of

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. He was the younger brother of Sir Charles Maclean, 9th Baronet. In 1827 he married Harriet, daughter of General Frederick Maitland, and died in 1874.''A History of the Clan MacLean from Its First Settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the Present Period'' (R. Clarke & Company, 1889)

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1800 births 1874 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford People educated at Eton College Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Presidents of the Oxford Union Younger sons of baronets UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 English barristers {{UK-law-bio-stub