Sir George Makgill, 9th Baronet of Kemback and Fingask, ''de jure'' 9th Viscount of Oxfuird

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(1812-1878) was a Scottish peer.

Life

He was born on 23 December 1812 the son of John Makgill of

Kemback Kemback is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, located east of Cupar. The present village was developed in the 19th century to house those working the flax mills on the nearby Ceres Burn. From 1681 the minister for the parish was Alexander ...

and

Fingask Fingask Castle is a country house in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is perched above Rait, three miles (5 km) north-east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowr ...

and his wife Eliza Dalgleish. In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being Archibald Campbell Swinton. He resigned from the Society in 1857. In the 1850s he had an Edinburgh townhouse at 12 Claremont Crescent in the

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. He died on 21 September 1878.

Family

His sister Jane married Robert Haldane WS. In 1833 he married Harriet Strettell (d.1890), daughter of Amos Strettell. They were parents to Captain John Makgill, George Makgill and Arthur Makgill, and grandparents to George Makgill.

Publications

Makgill published ''Rent No Robbery: An Examination Of Some Erroneous Doctrines Regarding Property In Land'' in 1851. The short, roughly 40 page tract was a response to popular communist arguments against the practice of rent, such as those laid out in the ''Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts'' of Karl Marx 1844.

References

1812 births 1878 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Oxfuird, George Makgill, 9th Viscount Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia {{Scotland-bio-stub