Cleland Kinloch

Cleland Kinloch, rice planter, was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1759 and died. at his home, Acton Plantation in Sumter County, South Carolina, on 23 Sept., 1823.

Cleland was educated at Eton and in Holland. He remained in Scotland during the Revolution, and returned to South Carolina in 1783. His property had been confiscated during the War because of his Loyalist beliefs but the property was eventually restored.

He served frequently in the state legislature, was a delegate to the conventions of 1787 and 1790, also holding other offices. He was among the most successful rice-planters in the state, and one of the first to adopt the tide-water cultivation and the new pounding and threshing machinery, and to encourage inventions and improvement.