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  1. John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie FRSE (1790–1856) was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Life [ edit ] He was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1790, the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk.

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests [1] [2] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

  5. Clerk-Maxwell family of Middlebie. This page summarises records created by this Family. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually...

  6. 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.

  7. 29 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Born Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 June 1831. Died Cambridge, England, 5 November 1879. It was while competing for the fourth Adams Prize that James Maxwell wrote a paper on Saturn's rings, in which he proposed that they were made of small particles, and could not be solid.