Aeneas John McIntyre QC was a Scottish-born Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

Mclntyre was the only son of Aeneas Mclntyre LL.D. and F.L.S., of King's College, Aberdeen, and Hackney and his wife Charlotte Susanna Thompson, daughter of William Thomson of Jamaica. He entered Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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 on 6 November 1843 and was called to the bar 20 November 1846. On 8 February 1872 he was appointed , Q.C.

Queen's Counsel

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 and became a Bencher of his Inn on 27 May 1873. He went on the North Wales and Chester circuit and was elected a member of the Bar Committee in December 1883.

At the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

-Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...

 McIntyre was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MPs) for Worcester

Worcester (UK Parliament constituency)

Worcester is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885 it has elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election; from 1295 to 1885 it elected two MPs....

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He held the seat until Worcester's representation was reduced to one seat under the Redistribution of Seats Act

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

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. At the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

-Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...

 he stood unsuccessfully in Hackney North

Hackney North (UK Parliament constituency)

Hackney North was a parliamentary constituency in the "The Metropolis" . It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- History :...

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McIntyre was appointed County Court Judge for circuit No. 12 (Yorkshire) in January 1889, but died nine months later at the age of 67.

McIntyre married Eleanor Corbett daughter of George Corbett in 1854.

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