James Mackintosh (politician)

New Zealand politician

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

He was born in Lochinver, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and went to Victoria, Australia as a young man with his father.^[1] At Moonee Ponds, he and his brother Murdoch Mackintosh were stock-breeders.^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

Mackintosh married Anne McLean in 1852. Her father owned the Pollio station on the Darling River.^[1]

Life New Zealand

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1890–1893	11th	Wallace			Liberal
1893–1896	12th	Wallace			Liberal

The Mackintoshs moved to New Zealand in 1866, where he was also a runholder.^[5] He first bought the Strathmore estate in the Otautau district, and later the Gladfield estate.^[2] He retired from farming in 1884 and moved to Invercargill.^[2]

From 1880 until shortly before his death, Mackintosh was a member of the Southland Education Board. He set up the Aparima road board.^[6] While obituaries in The Evening Post (Wellington) and The Star (Christchurch) mention his membership of the Southland Provincial Council,^[3]^[6] his name does not appear on the council's roll compiled by Guy Scholefield in his 1950 edition of the New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949.^[7] For a time, he was chairman of the Wallace County Council.^[3]

Mackintosh stood in the 1887 election in the Mataura electorate and was beaten by the incumbent, George Richardson.^[1]^[8] He represented the Wallace electorate from the 1890 election for two parliamentary terms.^[9]

He was an advocate of cheap government loans for settlers.^[5] In the 1896 election, the Wallace electorate was contested by five candidates, and Mackintosh came last.^[10]

Death

Annie Mackintosh died on 11 May 1880 in Invercargill.^[11] Mackintosh died on 9 May 1897, aged 69.^[3] He left seven sons and four daughters.^[6]

References

1 2 3 Cyclopedia Company Limited (1905). "Old Colonists". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Otago & Southland Provincial Districts. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
1 2 3 Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda (PDF). Vol. II. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. pp. 30f. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
1 2 3 4 "Obituary". The Star. No. 5871. 13 May 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
↑ "Macintosh, James". Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
1 2 Hamer, David (1988). The New Zealand Liberals: The Years of Power, 1891-1912 (1st ed.). Auckland: Auckland University Press. pp. 98, 364. ISBN 1-86940-014-3.
1 2 3 "Obituary". The Evening Post. Vol. LIII, no. 113. 14 May 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
↑ Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. pp. 224–227.
↑ "The General Election, 1887". National Library. 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
↑ Wilson, Jim (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
↑ "Otago". Auckland Star. Vol. XXVII, no. 305. 23 December 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
↑ "Deaths". The Southland Times. No. 3709. 12 May 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

New Zealand Parliament

Preceded by

Samuel Hodgkinson

Member of Parliament for Wallace
1890–1896

Succeeded by

Michael Gilfedder

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