Augustus Macdonald

The Hon. Augustus Henry Moreton Macdonald of Largie (24 June 1804 – 14 February 1862), born Augustus Moreton, was a British Whig politician and writer.

Background

Born Augustus Moreton, Macdonald was a younger son of Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie, and Lady Frances, daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon. Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie, was his elder brother.

Political career

Macdonald was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West in 1832, a seat he held until 1835, and then represented Gloucestershire East between 1835 and 1841. He was also a campaigner for homeopathy. In 1836 he published the work Civilisation, or, a Brief Analysis of the Natural Laws that Regulate the Numbers and Condition of Mankind.

Family

Macdonald married Mary Jane, daughter of Sir Charles Macdonald-Lockhart, 2nd Baronet, in 1837, and later assumed the surname of Macdonald in lieu of his patronymic. They had several children. She died in December 1851. Macdonald survived her by eleven years and died in February 1862, aged 57. He rebuilt Largie Castle on a new site at Tayinloan.

gollark: I have it *open*, it's quite long.

gollark: I don't think, in many cases, you could just swap out a file for a TCP stream or datagram not-stream and expect all the code dealing with it in an application to work fine.

gollark: Applications have to handle them differently, and the kernel does too.

gollark: There's a significant difference between "send datagram" and "push to a stream" and, i don't know, "wait for an inbound TCP connection".

gollark: Still, though, I don't think having all this stuff as read/writeable "files" when the semantics are different is good.

References

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Augustus Macdonald

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West 1832–1835 With: Hon. Grantley Berkeley	Succeeded by Hon. Grantley Berkeley The Marquess of Worcester
Preceded by Hon. Henry Reynolds-Moreton Sir Christopher William Codrington	Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire East 1835–1841 With: Sir Christopher William Codrington	Succeeded by Sir Christopher William Codrington Hon. Francis Charteris

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