James Stuart Menteath

Sir James Stuart Menteath of Closeburn and Mansfield FRSE DL (1792-1870) was a Scottish advocate and eminent amateur geologist.

[1] He was born at Closeburn Castle in 1792 the son of Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath and Ludivina Loughnan.

He trained as an advocate in 1816 and then studied as a barrister-at-law and served at the Middle Temple in London.

[2] In 1837, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to geology.

[5] The baronetcy passed to his nephew, James Stuart Menteath of the 17th Lancers.