Miles MacInnes was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.
Occupation
politician
Position held
member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
Miles MacInnes (21 February 1830 – 28 September 1909) was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.
Life
MacInnes was the son of General John MacInnes and his wife Ann Sophia Reynolds. His father left Scotland to seek his fortune in the East as an officer of the East India Company and retired to Fern Lodge, Hampstead after a successful military career.
Miles was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford. Because he was related to George Head Head's wife he was given a job at Head's bank in Carlisle when he was 23. He worked at that bank until 1864 when the bank was merged with another and became a trader in corn in London.
He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway and J.P. for Cumberland and Middlesex. In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle. He had been adopted as heir to George Head Head and his wife who were childless. MacInnes was left £160,000 and the estate on the understanding that he would use Head's coat of arms and to use the surname "Head". Macinness did not take on the surname.
