Sir George Makgill, 9th Baronet of Kemback and Fingask, de jure 9th Viscount of Oxfuird FRSE (1812-1878) was a Scottish peer.
He was born on 23 December 1812 the son of John Makgill of Kemback and Fingask and his wife Eliza Dalgleish. [1]
In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Archibald Campbell Swinton. He resigned from the Society in 1857. [2]
In the 1850s he had an Edinburgh townhouse at 12 Claremont Crescent in the New Town. [3]
He died on 21 September 1878.
His sister Jane married Robert Haldane WS.
In 1833 he married Harriet Strettell (d.1890), daughter of Amos Strettell. They were parents to Captain John Makgill, George Makgill and Arthur Makgill, and grandparents to George Makgill. [4]
Makgill published Rent No Robbery: An Examination Of Some Erroneous Doctrines Regarding Property In Land [5] in 1851. The short, roughly 40 page tract was a response to popular communist arguments against the practice of rent, such as those laid out in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of Karl Marx from 1844. [6]
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Viscount of Oxfuird is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1651 for Sir James Makgill, 1st Baronet, along with the subsidiary title of Lord Makgill of Cousland, also in the Peerage of Scotland, with remainder to his "heirs male of tailzie and provision whomsoever". He had already been created a Baronet, of Makgill, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 19 July 1625, with remainder to heirs male whatsoever. The remainder to heirs male whatsoever was a Scottish concept that permitted inheritance by persons not descended from the original grantee, but descended in the male line from male-line ancestors of the grantee. However, on the death of the first Viscount's son, the second Viscount, the Lordship and Viscountcy were assumed by his daughter Christian, as heir of tailzie and provision. Her son Robert Maitland Makgill also voted as Viscount of Oxfuird at the election of Scottish representative peer in 1733.
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