Neill Malcolm 13th of Poltalloch

Son and heir of Neill Malcolm 12th of Poltalloch (q.v.), and brother of John Malcolm (also whom q.v.). MP for Boston 1826-1831. The Malcolm family have a recent entry in the ODNB that details the role of Neill Malcolm (iii) or 13th of Poltalloch in driving clearances and evictions from his estates in Scotland.

1. Will of Neill Malcolm of Great Stanhope Street, Middlesex, proved 16/11/1857. Under the will (made in 1851) he left £20,000 to each of his three daughters and his estate, including unspecified plantations in Jamaica, in trust for his future sons and, failing his male line, then to his brother John Malcolm and John's sons.

2. Anthony Cooke shows Neil Malcolm (died c. 1858) leaving an estate of £49,666 in Scotland and under £350,000 in England.

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/malcolm-neill-1797-1857 [accessed 15/01/2015]; Matthew Kilburn, ‘Malcolm family of Poltalloch (per. 1750–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2016 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/107421, accessed 18 Nov 2016]; see also Allan I. MacInnes 'Commercial Landlordism and Clearance in the Highlands: The Case of Arichonan', in Juan Pan-Montojo, Frederik Pedersen (eds.) Communities in European History: Representations, Jurisdictions, Conflicts (Pisa, 2007) pp. 47-64 lettereold.humnet.unipi.it/ai/books2/communities/03_MACINNES.pdf [accessed 11/07/2017[ (we are grateful to Jim Brennan for drawing this reference to our attention).

1. PROB 11/2260/229.

2. Anthony Cooke, 'An elite revisited: Glasgow West India merchants, 1783-1877', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 32.2 2012 pp. 127-165, at p. 162; SC 51/32/9/319 27/05/1858.