Duncan Mackintosh

Captain Duncan Mackintosh was an officer in the British Army's Highland regiment despatched to Ireland to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Biography
Following the Rebellion, he settled in County Wicklow, where he bought a landed estate. His wife, Alicia, whom he married in Dublin in 1802, was a daughter of Lady Weldon, and a niece of the Earl of Dysart.

He was father of Canadian surveyor and engineer, Captain William Mackintosh and grandfather of the Honourable Charles Herbert Mackintosh, Canadian journalist and public official. He was a close kinsman of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, the essayist and public official. He may also have been the father of C.H.M., the Plymouth Brethren author and evangelist whose birth in 1820 occurred in the Glenmalure barracks, County Wicklow.
 
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