Old Photograph Munches House Scotland

Old photograph of Munches House by Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was the family seat of Mr Wellwood Maxwell, M.P. for Kirkcudbrightshire. Wellwood Herries Maxwell, born 15 October 1817, died 13 August 1900, was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Maxwell was the son of John Herries Maxwell of Munches in Buittle. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, at the University of Edinburgh, and at Exeter College, Oxford.England. In 1839 he was called to the bar in Scotland. He was a director of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Convener of the Commissioners of Supply of Kirkcudbright. Maxwell was elected Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbright Stewartry at a by election on 30 January 1868. He held the seat until the 1874 general election. Maxwell married in 1844 Jane Home Jardine, daughter of Sir William Jardine. His son William Jardine Herries Maxwell was Member of Parliament for Dumfrieshire. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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