Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
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Allan Maconochie, etching by Robert Dighton.
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| Born | 26 January 1748 |
| Died | 14 June 1816 (aged 68) Edinburgh |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Advocate, judge |
Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank FRSE FSA(Scot) (1748–1816) was a Scottish advocate, academic jurist, judge and agriculturalist.
The only son of Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, Midlothian, by his wife Isabella, daughter of the Rev. Walter Allan, minister of Colinton in the same shire, was born on 26 January 1748. He was educated privately by Alexander Adam, and at the High School of Edinburgh. He entered the University of Edinburgh, where he attended the law classes. He was apprenticed to Thomas Tod, writer to the signet.
In 1764, Maconochie, with William Creech, John Bruce, Henry Mackenzie, and two other fellow-students, founded the Speculative Society, devoted to public speaking and liberal thought. Having completed his university course in 1768, Maconochie went to Paris for a short time. He passed advocate on 8 December 1770, and was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn (16 April 1771), but was not called to the English bar. He subsequently returned to France, where he remained till 1773.
In 1774, he was elected to the general assembly as lay representative of the burgh of Dunfermline. Maconochie was appointed professor of public law and law of nature and nations in the University of Edinburgh on 16 July 1779; and on 18 December following was elected treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates. In 1788 he became sheriff-depute of Renfrewshire. He was one of the eight advocates who took an active part in procuring the rejection of Henry Erskine as dean of the faculty in January 1796.
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