Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet
Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet was an Irish Member of Parliament.Biography
He was the second son of William Macartney, long-serving Member of Parliament for Belfast, by his wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Bankes.
He married firstly Anne, daughter of Edward Scriven by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Barclay of Dublin. They had seven children. Macartney married secondly on 4 November 1794, Catherine, daughter of Walter Hussey Burgh, late Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, by his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Burgh of Bert, County Kildare. By her he had further issue, including Hussey Burgh Macartney, the first. Dean of Melbourne.
Macartney sat in the Irish House of Commons for Fore from 1793 to 1797, and for Naas from 1798 to 1800. He also served as Deputy Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer of Ireland. On 29 April 1796, at the opening of the Grand Canal Docks, he was knighted "in consequence of his energetic exertions in the promotion of the inland navigation of Ireland", and on 4 January 1799 he was created a baronet, of Lish, County Armagh.
On Macartney's death he was succeeded in the title by his first son by his first wife, William Isaac Macartney. Macartney's widow died on 17 September 1840, in her seventieth year.
