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Alexander Maconochie, later Maconochie-Welwood (2 March1777 - 30 November1861), was a Scottish judge. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
The son of Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, he was admitted as an advocate in 1799. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1813, and as Lord Advocate from 1816 to 1819. The Faculty of Advocates is the collective term by which what in England are called barristers are known in Scotland. ... Her Majestys Solicitor General for Scotland is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Executive on Scots Law. ... Her Majestys Advocate, known as the Lord Advocate (Morair Tagraidh in Scots Gaelic), was the chief legal adviser of the United Kingdom Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters until the passing of the Scotland Act 1998. ...
He was Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight from 1817-1818, for the Kilrenny district of Anstruther burghs from 1818 to 1819. He was raised to Scottish bench as Lord Meadowbank 1819, and resigned in 1843. He assumed the additional surname of Welwood on succeeding to his cousin's estates in 1854. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
He is stated in the Baronage to have been father of Alexander Masterton of that Ilk, whose son and heir John Masterton had a crown charter in 1528 of the Mains of Bothkennar in Stirlingshire, to him and Grizel Mure his spouse.
Alexander Masterton and Catherine his wife obtained a feu charter of their lands of Beath, called Masterton-Beath, and of four-sevenths of the lands of Grange.
Alexander and Janet Couston his wife had in 1547 a charter of the lands of Millerwood and Cumlybank, afterwards called Parkmill, in the county of Clackmannan, from John Lord Erskine; they are also stated to have been infeft in the lands of Bad in Perthshire, in 1544.
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