Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Macdonald, (Sir) Archibald (Bart.)
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Macdonald, (Sir) Archibald (Bart.), s. Alexander, of Edinburgh, Scotland, baronet. Christ Church, matric. 20 June, 1764, aged 17; B.A. 1768, M.A. 1772, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1770, K.C. 1778, bencher 1778, F.R.S. 1788, M.P. Hindon, Wilts, 1777-80, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1780-93, one of the judges of Wales 1780, solicitor-general 1784-8, serjt.-at-law 1793, attorney-general 1780-93, knighted June, 1788, lord chief baron of the Exchequer 1793-1813, P.C. 1793, created a baronet 27 Nov., 1813, died 18 May, 1826, father of Sir James, 1801. See Foster's Baronetage & Alumni West., 380.