Alexander Wentworth Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald (9 December 1773 – 19 June 1824) was a Scottish

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 and Member of Parliament

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Macdonald was the eldest son of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald

Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald

Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald , was a Scottish peer.Macdonald was the younger son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, and his wife Lady Margaret . He was educated at Eton and served with the Grenadier Guards. Macdonald was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Inverness-shire and a...

, and his wife Elizabeth Diana (née Bosville). He succeeded his father in the barony in 1795 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the British House of Lords. The following year he was instead elected to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 for Saltash

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, a seat he held until 1802.

Lord Macdonald died in June 1824, aged 50. He never married and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate

Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate

Lt.-General Sir Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate was the second son of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald and Elizabeth Diana Bosville...

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