Miles MacInnes

Miles MacInnes (21 February 1830 – 28 September 1909) was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.

MacInnes was the son of General John Maclnnes and his wife Ann Sophia Reynolds. His father left Scotland to seek his fortune in the East as an officer of the East India Company and retired to Fern Lodge, Hampstead after a successful military career.^[1]

Miles was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, and settled in Cumberland when he inherited an estate on the Scottish border near Carlisle. He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway and J.P. for Cumberland and Middlesex.^[2] In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle.^[3]

In 1885 MacInnes was elected Member of Parliament for Hexham and held the seat until 1892. However his opponent's election was declared void, and he regained the seat in 1893, to lose it in 1895.^[4]

MacInnes married Euphemia Johnston of Holton Hall, Suffolk in 1859. He was the father of Bishop Rennie MacInnes of Jerusalem and grandfather of Archbishop Campbell MacInnes of Jerusalem.

References

1. ^ Clan MacInnes
2. ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
3. ^ Carlisle City Council History of Rickerby
4. ^ Leigh Rayment

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Miles MacInnes

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Hexham 1885 – 1892	Succeeded by Nathaniel George Clayton
Preceded by Nathaniel George Clayton	Member of Parliament for Hexham 1893 – 1895	Succeeded by Wentworth Beaumont

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Name	Macinnes, Miles
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Date of birth	21 February 1830
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Date of death	28 September 1909
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