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John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie [1] FRSE (1790–1856) was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell . Life. He was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1790, the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk. He studied law and qualified as an advocate in 1811.
24. Jan. 2008 · John Clerk Maxwell had inherited the residue of the Middlebie estate, approximately 700 ha, in Kirkcudbrightshire, some 7 miles from Castle Douglas. The estate was poor and Maxwell senior built the laird's house, known as Glenlair. Young Maxwell spent his youth partly on the estate and partly with his father's sister (Mrs Wedderburn ...
- John S Reid, Charles H.-T Wang, Charles H.-T Wang, J. Michael T Thompson
- 2008
16. Aug. 2016 · ...and the younger son John succeeded to the property of Middlebie, which descended to him from his grandmother, Dorothea, Lady Clerk Maxwell, and took the name of Maxwell. He married in 1826 Frances, daughter of Robert Cay of Charlton, and had one son, James Clerk Maxwell, born in July 1831, and died in Nov. 1879.
- Frances Clerk-Maxwell
- April 3, 1856
John Clerk Maxwell and Frances now chose to move to their estate at Middlebie and they had a house built for them at Glenlair on the estate. Their son James Clerk Maxwell was born in the house at 14 India Street and he would eventually inherit the house on the death of his father, retaining the house throughout his life.
He had been born "John Clerk", adding "Maxwell" to his own after he inherited (as an infant in 1793) the Middlebie estate, a Maxwell property in Dumfriesshire. James was a first cousin of both the artist Jemima Blackburn (the daughter of his father's sister) and the civil engineer William Dyce Cay (the son of his mother's brother ...
Clerk-Maxwell family of Middlebie. This page summarises records created by this Family. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates...
24. Dez. 2016 · Maxwell’s father was John Clerk; Maxwell was added later for inheritance purposes. His mother was Frances Cay. Maxwell was brought up in the Scottish countryside on an estate at Middlebie, Galloway, in a house called Glenlair. His mother died when he was 8 years old, and after an unsuccessful spell with a private tutor, he was ...
