Miles MacInnes

      Miles MacInnes (21 February 1830 – 28 September 1909) was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.

      MacInnes was the son of General John Maclnnes and his wife Ann Sophia Reynolds. His father left Scotland to seek his fortune in the East as an officer of the East India Company and retired to Fern Lodge, Hampstead after a successful military career.[1]

      Miles was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, and settled in Cumberland when he inherited an estate on the Scottish border near Carlisle. He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway and J.P. for Cumberland and Middlesex.[2] In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle.[3]

      In 1885 MacInnes was elected Member of Parliament for Hexham and held the seat until 1892. However his opponent's election was declared void, and he regained the seat in 1893, to lose it in 1895.[4]

      MacInnes married Euphemia Johnston of Holton Hall, Suffolk in 1859. He was the father of Bishop Rennie MacInnes of Jerusalem and grandfather of Archbishop Campbell MacInnes of Jerusalem.

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      Parliament of the United Kingdom
      New constituency Member of Parliament for Hexham
      18851892
      Succeeded by
      Nathaniel George Clayton
      Preceded by
      Nathaniel George Clayton
      Member of Parliament for Hexham
      18931895
      Succeeded by
      Wentworth Beaumont
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