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John Clerk (later Clerk Maxwell) of Middlebie [1] FRSE (1790–1856) was a Scottish advocate and father of the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell . Life. He was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1790, the son of Janet Irving and Captain James Clerk. He studied law and qualified as an advocate in 1811.
16 de ago. de 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.
24 de ene. de 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.
Sir John's son George then married his cousin Dorothea, inheriting the Maxwell estates provided he assumed the Maxwell name which he did as 'Clerk Maxwell'. It was thus through his grand-father, the son of George, and his father that James Clerk Maxwell inherited the Middlebie estate of Glenlair.
James Clerk Maxwell was born on 13 June 1831 at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, to John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie, an advocate, and Frances Cay, daughter of Robert Hodshon Cay and sister of John Cay. (His birthplace now houses a museum operated by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation .)
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.
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.
