Miles MacInnes was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 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.

Miles was educated at Rugby School

Rugby School

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 and at Balliol College, Oxford

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, and settled in Cumberland

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 when he inherited an estate on the Scottish border near Carlisle. He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway

London and North Western Railway

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 and J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for Cumberland and Middlesex. In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle.

In 1885 MacInnes was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Hexham

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 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.

MacInnes married Euphemia Johnston of Holton Hall, Suffolk in 1859. He was the father of Bishop Rennie MacInnes

Rennie MacInnes

The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes was a Bishop in the Anglican Church in the first third of the twentieth century.-Biography:MacInnes was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1897...

 of Jerusalem and grandfather of Archbishop Campbell MacInnes of Jerusalem.

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