MACKINTOSH, JAMES (1827-97) was born at Lochinver, Sutherlandshire, emigrated to Victoria as a young man, and with his brother took up an estate at Moonee Ponds, where they bred horses, cattle and sheep. Mackintosh represented East Bourke in the Victoria Legislative Assembly (1859-60). In the sixties he came to Southland and purchased the Strathmore estate of 3,000 acres in the Otautau district, and later the Gladfield estate of 14,000 acres. Both were much improved, and eventually disposed of when Mackintosh retired to live in Invercargill (1884). He formed the Aparima road board, which at first functioned as a farmers' club, was a member of the Southland education board from 1880, and was chairman of the first Wallace county council. In 1887 he contested the Mataura seat in Parliament against G. F. Richardson (q.v.), and in 1890 he was elected for Wallace, which he represented to 1896, being then defeated. He was a promoter of the Southland Freezing Co., and an advocate of a state bank. Mackintosh did much for the development of the western district. He died on 9 May 1897.

Otago Daily Times, 8 Jun 1897; Southland Times, 11 May 1897. Portrait: Parliament House.

Reference: Volume 2, page 18

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