{{distinguish|text=the musician Mylo, born Myles MacInnes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Miles MacInnes | image = Miles_MacInnes.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 21 February 1830 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1909|9|28|1830|02|21|df=y}} | death_place = Rickerby Park | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | party = | boards = | spouse = | website = | footnotes = }} '''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 (1779–?<ref>{{cite book |last=MacGillivray |first=Neil |date=2025 |title=An Innovative Physician and Scientist in Britain and British India: The Life and Times of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, 1808-1889 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Innovative_Physician_and_Scientist_in/J9k5EQAAQBAJ |publisher=Boydell & Brewer, Limited |page=X |isbn=9781837651917 |access-date=25 March 2025}}</ref>) 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.<ref>[http://www.runet.edu/festival/clans/macinnes.html Clan MacInnes]</ref>
Miles was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford.<ref name=debretts/> 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.<ref name=news>{{cite news|title=Legacy to the Railways|url=http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/legacy-to-the-railways-1.705543|accessdate=1 October 2014|publisher=Cumberland News|date=7 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20141001173728/http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/legacy-to-the-railways-1.705543|archivedate=1 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway and J.P. for Cumberland and Middlesex.<ref name=debretts>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]</ref> In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle.<ref>[http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/parks_and_open_spaces/rickerby_park/history_of_rickerby.aspx Carlisle City Council History of Rickerby] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006151603/http://www.carlisle.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/parks_and_open_spaces/rickerby_park/history_of_rickerby.aspx |date=6 October 2014 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=news/>
In 1885 MacInnes was elected Member of Parliament for Hexham and held the seat until 1892. However his opponent's election was declared void, and he regained the seat in a 1893 by-election, to lose it in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons3.htm |title=Leigh Rayment |access-date=22 April 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011152457/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons3.htm |archive-date=11 October 2018 }}</ref>
MacInnes married Euphemia Johnston of Holton Hall, Suffolk in 1859. He was the father of Bishop Rennie MacInnes of Jerusalem and grandfather of Archbishop Campbell MacInnes of Jerusalem.
When he died in 1909, at the age of 79, he was buried at Stanwix near the tomb of his benefactor. A steam George V class railway engine was named in his honour by the LNWR.<ref name=news/>
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