James Macartney (1692–1770)


James Macartney was an Irish politician.
He was the only son of James Macartney, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and his second wife Alice Cuffe, daughter of Sir James Cuffe. Through his maternal grandmother Alice Aungier he was coheir to the Earl of Longford.

Family

He married Catherine, third daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and his third wife Anne Lovett, and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, including :
Catherine died in 1731. Since both their sons had died before their father without issue, on James's death in 1770 his estates passed to his daughters and their children.

Political career

He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1713 to 1760, as a Member of Parliament for Longford Borough from 1713 to 1727, and then for Granard from 1727 to 1760.