Donald Mackenzie Smeaton

Donald Mackenzie Smeaton CSI (9 September 1848 – 19 April 1910[1]), son of David James Smeaton,[2] was a Scottish politician who was the Liberal MP for Stirlingshire from January 1906 until January 1910.[1]

Life

Smeaton was educated at the Abbey Park Institution, St. Andrew's, a boarding school run by his father, at which not less than 80 young men were boarded and educated.[3] He then attended the University of St Andrews, where he graduated with an M.A. degree.[4] Arriving in India in 1867, Smeaton held minor appointments in the North-Western Provinces.[4]

On 5 September 1873 Smeaton married Annette Louisa Lushington, daughter of Sir Henry Lushington (1826-1898),[5] 4th Bt. and Elizabeth Cheape.[2]

In 1879 he went to Burma where he served as Chief Secretary in 1887, officiated as Chief Commissioner in 1892 and 1896 and was a Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council of Burma in 1898 and 1901.[4] He was made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1895, was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1900 and retired in 1902.[4] Smeaton published editions of the North-Western Provinces Revenue Act, The Currency of India and The Karens of Burma.[4]

Death

He died in April 1910 aged 61, three months after retiring from Parliament.

References
  1. "The House of Commons Constituencies Beginning with 'S'". Leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  3. Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross, containing the names and addresses of Gentry, and of Persons in Business, &c. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1862) http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/St_A_education_1861.html
  4. Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906), Haskell House Publishers, New York.
  5. Lushington baronets
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James McKillop		 Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire
1906 – January 1910		 Succeeded by
William Allan Chapple
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