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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.
24 de jan. 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.
- John S Reid, Charles H.-T Wang, Charles H.-T Wang, J. Michael T Thompson
- 2008
He had been born "John Clerk", adding "Maxwell" to his own after he inherited (as an infant in 1793) the Middlebie estate, a Maxwell property in Dumfriesshire. James was a first cousin of both the artist Jemima Blackburn [21] (the daughter of his father's sister) and the civil engineer William Dyce Cay (the son of his mother's brother).
Clerk-Maxwell family of Middlebie. This page summarises records created by this Family. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of...
5 de jul. de 2011 · Note.—The Clerks of Penicuik and Maxwells of Middlebie; Lewis Campbell, William Garnett; Book: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell; Online publication: 05 July 2011; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709050.003
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.
