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born in 1831, being the only son of John Clerk Maxwell, Esq., of Middlebie, His grandfather was Captain James Clerk of Penicuik, whose two sons were the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., of ...
Bio/Description. A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was born in Edinburgh, to John Clerk and Frances Cay. His father was a man of comfortable means, of the Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, holders of the baronetcy of Clerk of Penicuik who added the surname Maxwell to his name after he inherited a country estate in Middlebie ...
Brilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment, by John W. Arthur. John Donald, 2016 ISBN: 978 19 06566 97 5 James Clerk Maxwell was the greatest physicist of the nineteenth century, and although his scientific contribution is now acknowledged to be on a level with those of Newton and Einstein, he has generally not received the acclaim that he deserves.
way, James Maxwell's father (Fig. 2), a younger brother whose original name was John Clerk, found himself the inheritor of the remnants of what had once been the magnificent estate of Middlebie and a major holding of the Maxwell family. This residue was located in Kirkcud-brightshire about sixteen miles southwest of Dumfries.
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 educated at Edinburgh Academy, from 1841. Maxwell wrote a paper on ...
