About Lachlan MacLachlan
Lived 1791 – 1849 (aged 57–58). Lachlan MacLachlan was a British politician and barrister.
Lachlan MacLachlan (9 May 1791 – 30 April 1849) was a Scottish-born barrister and, briefly, a Repeal Association MP.
MacLachlan, the son of Robert MacLachlan and Mary Campbell, was born in Strathlachlan.
MacLachlan became Repeal Association Member of Parliament (MP) for Galway Borough in 1832 but was unseated on petition on 30 April 1833.
He was awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Pembroke estate in Tobago, as he was, alongside Andrew Henry Lynch and James Campbell, an assignee of a mortgage, probably as executors and beneficiaries of the will of his uncle Lt General James Campbell (1743–1820).
MacLachlan died in Galway in 1849.
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politician, died 1849
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Lachlan MacLachlan was born in 1791.
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Lachlan MacLachlan died in 1849.
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Lachlan MacLachlan was a politician and barrister.
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