About John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie
Lived 1790 – 1856 (aged 65–66). John Clerk-Maxwell of Middlebie was a British jurist.
John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk. He studied law and qualified as an advocate in 1811.
He inherited the Middlebie estate in Dumfriesshire from his grandmother Dorothea Clerk Maxwell upon her death in 1793; and assumed the additional surname of Maxwell. He built a new mansion designed by Walter Newall on his estate in Kirkcudbrightshire at Glenlair.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1821, his proposer being Sir George Steuart Mackenzie.
In the 1830s he is recorded as living at 14 India Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town, which is where James Clerk Maxwell was born.
He died on 3 April 1856. He is buried in Parton in Kirkcudbrightshire.
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