Angus Macdonell
Angus Macdonnell of Collachie | |
|---|---|
Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada | |
| In office 1801–1804 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Isaac Dey Gray |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Scott |
Angus Macdonell of Collachie (died October 8, 1804) was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in
Alexander Macdonell of Collachie, and came to the estate of William Johnson in the Mohawk Valley of New York in 1773 as part of a large emigration by members of the MacDonell clan. He left that area at the beginning of the American Revolution and was educated in Montreal and Quebec City
.
He became first clerk of the
John Small, clerk of the Executive Council
. He introduced the Assessment Act of 1803 which was intended to provide more equal rates.
He was also a founding member of the
Law Society of Upper Canada and its third treasurer.[1] In October 1804, he was en route to a trial aboard HMS Speedy where he would defend a native person charged with murder. The ship sank in a storm on Lake Ontario near Brighton
with all hands lost.