DUN FERM LINE

James Abercromby , 1 Baron ( 3 son of Sir Ralph Abercromby 1738–1801 ). b. 7 Nov. 1776; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1800; a comr. of bankrupts 1802–27; M.P. for Midhurst 1807–12, for Calne 1812–30, for Edinburgh 1832–39; judge advocate general 12 May 1827 to Jany. 1828; lord chief baron of exchequer in Scotland 20 Feb. 1830 to 1832 when office was abolished under statute 2 Wm. iv, cap. 54 and he was granted pension of £2000 a year; master of the Mint 1 July 1834 to Nov. 1834; speaker of House of Commons 19 Feb. 1835 elected by a majority of 10 votes, closest contest on record, retired 15 May 1839; created Baron Dun ferm line of Dun ferm line, co. Fife 7 June 1839; dean of faculty in Univ. of Glasgow 1841; author of Lieutenant general Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. 1793–1801, a memoir 1861. d. Colinton near Edinburgh 17 April 1858. T. Murray’s Biographical annals of parish of Colinton (1863) 107–12; J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850) 489–93; J. Burke’s Commoners iv , (1838), portrait .