James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie

James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie

7th Governor of British Ceylon
In office 7 November 1837 – 15 April 1841
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	Robert Wilmot-Horton
Succeeded by	Colin Campbell
Personal details
Born	23 September 1784
Died	24 September 1843(1843-09-24) (aged 59)

James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (23 September 1784 – 24 September 1843), was a Scottish politician and British colonial administrator.

Born James Alexander Stewart, the son of Vice Admiral Keith Stewart (who died when James was eleven), he assumed the surname Stewart-Mackenzie after his marriage on 21 May 1817 to Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie ("the Hooded Lassie"), daughter of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth.

Stewart-Mackenzie was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Ross-shire in 1831. When that constituency was abolished in 1832, he was elected for the new Ross and Cromarty, serving until 1837.

He left the House of Commons to become Governor of Ceylon from March 1837 to 1840, and then Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (based in Corfu) from December 1840 to 1843.

He sold the house and grounds of Woodfall Gardens, Glasserton in 1819 to Stair Hathorn-Stewart at the neighbouring Physgill estate.

His great-grandson, James Alexander Francis Humberston Mackenzie, was created Baron Seaforth in 1921.

References

Fisher, David R. (ed.) Stewart Mackenzie, James Alexander (1784-1843). Cambridge University Press (2009). Online edition, retrieved 11 June 2015.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie	Member of Parliament for Ross-shire 1831–1832	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty 1832–1837	Succeeded by Thomas Mackenzie
Political offices
Preceded by Robert Wilmot-Horton	Governor of Ceylon 1837–1841	Succeeded by Colin Campbell

←Governors of British Ceylon →

Military Governors	Agnew Stuart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*

Governors	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**

Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*

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