James Mackintosh (18 October 1827 – 9 May 1897) was a 19th-century

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Member of Parliament in

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Early life

He was born in

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shire, Scotland, and went to Victoria, Australia as a young man with his father. At

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, he and his brother Murdoch Mackintosh were stock-breeders. The 1940 edition of the

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lists him as a representative of East Bourke in the Victoria Legislative Assembly, but this is incorrect and based on a confusion with the similarly named James Macintosh. Mackintosh married Anne McLean in 1852. Her father owned the Pollio station on the

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Life New Zealand

The Mackintoshs moved to New Zealand in 1866, where he was also a runholder. He first bought the Strathmore estate in the Otautau district, and later the Gladfield estate. He retired from farming in 1884 and moved to

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. From 1880 until shortly before his death, Mackintosh was a member of the Southland Education Board. He set up the Aparima road board. While obituaries in '' The Evening Post'' (Wellington) and '' The Star'' (Christchurch) mention his membership of the Southland Provincial Council, his name does not appear on the council's roll compiled by

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in his 1950 edition of the ''New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949''. For a time, he was chairman of the Wallace County Council. Mackintosh stood in the in the electorate and was beaten by the incumbent, George Richardson. He represented the Wallace electorate from the for two parliamentary terms. He was an advocate of cheap government loans for settlers. In the , the Wallace electorate was contested by five candidates, and Mackintosh came last.

Death

Annie Mackintosh died on 11 May 1880 in Invercargill. Mackintosh died on 9 May 1897, aged 69. He left seven sons and four daughters.

References

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