James Mackintosh

James Mackintosh (18 October 1827 – 9 May 1897) was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Southland, New Zealand.

Early life He was born in Lochinver, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and went to Victoria, Australia as a young man with his father. At Moonee Ponds, he and his brother Murdoch Mackintosh were stock-breeders. The 1940 edition of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography lists him as a representative of East Bourke in the Victoria Legislative Assembly, but this is incorrect and based on a confusion with the similarly named James Macintosh.

Mackintosh married Anne McLean in 1852. Her father owned the Pollio station on the Darling River. He first bought the Strathmore estate in the Otautau district, and later the Gladfield estate. For a time, he was chairman of the Wallace County Council. He represented the Wallace electorate from the for two parliamentary terms.

He was an advocate of cheap government loans for settlers.

Death Annie Mackintosh died on 11 May 1880 in Invercargill. Mackintosh died on 9 May 1897, aged 69.