Everything about James Abercromby 1st Baron Dunfermline totally explained
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (created 1839), (
7 November 1776 –
17 April 1858), was a
barrister and
Member of Parliament, and auditor to the
Duke of Devonshire's estates.
James was the third son of General
Sir Ralph Abercromby of Tullibody, who fell at the
battle of Alexandria,
March 28,
1801, by a daughter of John Menzies of Fernton,
Perthshire. She was created Baroness Abercromby.
James Abercromby attended the
Royal High School,
Edinburgh and was called to the English Bar in 1800. In 1827 he was appointed Judge-Advocate-General, and sworn a member of the
Privy Council.
He served as the
Whig MP for
Midhurst 1807–1812, and for
Calne 1812–1832. After the
Reform Act 1832 he sat for
Edinburgh,
Scotland until 1839.
Prior to his elevation to the peerage he was appointed, in 1830, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland,
Master of the Mint (1834) in the administration of
Lord Grey, and was elected
Speaker of the British House of Commons on
February 19,
1835 where he sat until moving to The
House of Lords.
In 1841 Lord Dunfermline was elected as Dean of Faculty in the
University of Glasgow.
He married,
June 14,
1802, Mary Anne, daughter of Egerton Leigh, Esq., of West Hall, in High Legh. Their son
Ralph,
KCB (b.1803), was sometime Secretary of Legation at
Berlin, and minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to
Sardinia (1840-1851), and thereafter
The Hague.
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