Category Archives: Mackintosh, James

James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

About Mackintosh

  • Studied at Aberdeen and was inspired by James Beattie (ODNB*)
  • Trained as a physician but changed to politics and journalism and later law: called to the English Bar in 1795 (ODNB*)
  • His Discourse on the law of nature and nations was a rejection of his former support for the French Revolution (ODNB*)
  • Was a judge in Bombay from 1803 to 1811 (ODNB*)
  • Rector of Glasgow University, 1823-1825

Publications, Manuscripts, and other Resources

  • James Mackintosh, A discourse on the study of the law of nature and nations; Introductory to a course on that science, to be commenced in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, On Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1799, in pursuance of an order of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (London: Printed for T. Cadell et al, 1799)
  • James Mackintosh, A discourse on the study of the law of nature and nations, 2nd edn (London: Henry Goode and Co. Sold by T. Clark, Edinburgh; and Wardlaw and Co. Glasgow, 1828; repr. in The cabinet library of scarce and celebrated tracts, no. 1 (Edinburgh: Thomas Clark, 1835; repr. 1838) Available from Project Gutenburg.)

NPG 45; Sir James Mackintosh by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Sir James Mackintosh
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, exhibited 1804
NPG 45
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Creative Commons Licence

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