{{Short description|British Conservative politician (1806-1861)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Alexander Macdonald Lockhart |honorific_suffix = |image = |alt = |caption = |office = Member of Parliament <br> for Lanarkshire |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 24 July 1837 |term_end = 23 June 1841 |alongside = |predecessor = John Maxwell |successor = William Lockhart |birth_date = July 1806 |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date|1861|10|27 |df=y}} (aged 55) |death_place = Galgorm Castle, Galgorm, County Antrim, Ireland |party = Conservative }}

'''Alexander Macdonald Lockhart''' (July 1806 – 27 October 1861) was a British Conservative politician and landowner.<ref name="HPO">{{cite web|website=History of Parliament Online|title=Alexander Lockhart|url=https://membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org/members/4738|accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>

Lockhart was born in 1806, the third son of Sir Alexander Lockhart, 1st Baronet (died 1816),<ref name="TBAK">{{cite book|title=The baronetage and knightage|chapter=Lockhart - Lineage |page=391|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA391|last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |year=1881 }}</ref> himself Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed and a member of the extended Lockharts of Lee family.

Lockhart was elected Conservative MP for Lanarkshire at the 1837 general election on 24 July 1837 and held the seat until the dissolution of the 13th United Kingdom parliament on 23 June 1841.<ref name="HPO"/> He served as a magistrate.<ref name="Hansard-1940">{{cite web |title=Spirit Licences (Scotland). (Hansard, 4 February 1840) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1840/feb/04/spirit-licences-scotland#S3V0051P0_18400204_HOC_66 |website=Hansard |accessdate=27 July 2020}}</ref>

He had four siblings; two sisters and two older brothers, the latter being Sir Charles Lockhart, second baronet (1799–1832) and Sir Norman Lockhart, third baronet (1802–1849). The fourth baronet, Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart (1845–1870), was his nephew.{{efn|See: Lockhart baronets#Lockhart baronets, of Lee (1806)}}<ref name="EScot">{{cite web |title=Lockhart |url=https://electricscotland.com/history/nation/lockhart.htm |website=Electric Scotland |accessdate=27 July 2020}}</ref>

He died on 27 October 1861, aged 55,<ref name="TBAK"/> after a few days illness, while visiting John Young at Galgorm Castle, County Antrim.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Deaths |magazine=The Spectator |volume=34 |issue=1741 |date=9 November 1861 |page=1221}}</ref>

He was a friend of and advisor to painter Joseph Severn and his family.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Grant F. |last1=Scott |date=2005 |title=Sacred Relics: A Discovery of New Severn Letters |journal=European Romantic Review |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=283–295 |doi=10.1080/10509580500210303|s2cid=170095102 }}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-alexander-lockhart | Mr Alexander Lockhart }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef| before = John Maxwell }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire | years = 1841–1841 }} {{s-aft| after= William Lockhart }}

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