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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 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2008) 16 ...
George's father, his brother John and himself were friends of James Hutton. Family. He married Dorothea Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John Clerk. He had four other sons and four daughters. He was the great-grandfather of the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell. References
James Clerk Maxwell was born on the 13th June, 1831, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the only child of John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie and his wife Frances Cay. When he was two the family moved to their country home of Glenlair in Kirkcudbrightshire. James was private educated for a while, and it was claimed by his tutor that he was a slow learner.
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 ...
school could have achieved. 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 Figure 1. Bust of James Clerk Maxwell in ornamental surround located in the picture gallery at
16. Mai 2021 · Sir John Clerk, the great-great-grandfather of Clerk Maxwell, 10 was a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland from 1707 to 1755; he was also one of the Commissioners of the Union, and was in many ways an accomplished scholar. His second son George married a first cousin, Dorothea Maxwell, the heiress of Middlebie in Dumfriesshire, and took the name of Maxwell. By the death of his elder brother ...
