William Alexander Mackinnon ( 1784 - 1870 )

Birth: Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom (02 August 1784) Death: Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent, England, United Kingdom (30 April 1870) Burial: Acrise Park, Kent Career: Politician; plantation and slave owner; colonial administrator Education: Admitted to Lincoln's Inn (1802) not called to the bar; St John's College, University of Cambridge, BA (1804), MA (1807) Career: Chief of clan Mackinnon; Tory MP for Dulwich (1819-1820); Liberal MP for Lymington (1831-1832, 1837, 1841, 1847-1852); unpaid colonisation commissioner for South Australia (1842); MP for Rye (1853, 1857, 1859-1865); Trustee of Trindad Petroleum Company, Marquise and Hardinghen Iron, Coal and Marble Company, West India Agicultural Company; Director of Elham Valley Railway Company; Chairman of the Furness Iron and Steel Co; patron of the Metropolitan Patent Wood-Pavement Company; owner of Mackinnon's estate in Antigua which used enslaved people for labour Memberships: FSA (1820); FRAS; FGS; RSPCA (Chairman); Highland Society; Association for the Encouragement of Literature Membership: Fellow Election Date: 14/06/1827.