Sir James Stuart Menteath of Closeburn and Mansfield

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DL (1792-1870) was a Scottish advocate and eminent amateur geologist.

Life

He was born at Closeburn Castle in 1792 the son of Sir

Charles Granville Stuart Menteath Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, 1st Baronet of Closeburn and Mansfield, FRSE FSA (1769–1847) was a Scottish advocate and landowner. Life He was born at Closeburn Castle on 15 May 1769, the son of Rev James Stuart Menteath and Cather ...

and Ludivina Loughnan. He was educated at Rugby School. He trained as an advocate in 1816 and then studied as a barrister-at-law and served at the Middle Temple in London. In 1837, he was elected a Fellow of the

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for his contributions to geology. His proposer was Patrick Neill. He served as the Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire. He also had business interests in the limestone deposits of New Cumnock. He was created a baronet on the death of his father in 1847. He died on 27 February 1870 at Mansfield House in Ayrshire.

Family

He was grandson of his namesake Rev James Menteath. In 1846 he married Jane Bailey, daughter of Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet. They had no children.The Solicitors Journal and Reporter, 5 March 1870 The baronetcy passed to his nephew, James Stuart Menteath of the 17th Lancers.

Publications

*''A Geology of the Snowdon Range'' *''The Geology of Nithsdale'' (1828)

References

1792 births 1870 deaths Amateur geologists People from Dumfries and Galloway Members of the Faculty of Advocates Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish landowners Scottish geologists People educated at Rugby School Members of the Middle Temple 19th-century British businesspeople {{UK-geologist-stub