James Macartney (1692 – 24 March 1770) was an Irish politician. He was the only son of James Macartney (died 1727), judge of the

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, and his second wife Alice Cuffe, daughter of Sir James Cuffe (died 1678). Through his maternal grandmother Alice Aungier he was coheir to the Earl of Longford.

Family

He married Catherine, the third daughter of the eminent

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Thomas Coote and his third wife Anne Lovett, and niece of

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. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, including : * Francis Macartney MP, who died in 1759, before his father, without issue *Coote, who died in 1748, without issue *Martha, who married

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and had issue, including George Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton * Frances Greville ( c.1724-1789), the

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and author of the "Prayer for Indifference"; she married the politician Fulke Greville and was the mother of four children, including the celebrated political hostess, Frances Anne Crewe and the theatre-manager

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. Catherine died in 1731. Since both their sons had died before their father without issue, on James's death in 1770 his estates passed to his daughters and their children.

Political career

He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1713 to 1760, as a Member of Parliament for Longford Borough from 1713 to 1727, and then for Granard from 1727 to 1760.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macartney, James 1692 births 1770 deaths Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies