Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet


Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet was a Scottish MP and twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

Life

He was born on 13January 1763, the eldest son of Edward Marjoribanks, of Hallyards and Lees, a prominent wine merchant in Bordeaux, and Grizel Stewart, daughter of Archibald Stewart who was Lord Provost and MP for Edinburgh during the Jacobite rising of 1745, and then tried for high treason and acquitted. Sir John's brother, Campbell Marjoribanks became Chairman of the East India Company; his brother, London merchant Stewart owned a shipping company and became MP for Hythe; his brother Edward a partner in the bank Coutts & Co.; and his brother James was a judge in the East India Company.
Marjoribanks was a captain in the Coldstream Guards, became MP for Buteshire at the general election of 1812 and in 1814 served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was instrumental in getting Regent Bridge built in Edinburgh. He was created a Baronet by patent on 6May 1815. In 1818 he was elected to Parliament for Berwickshire, which he continued to represent during two Parliaments until the dissolution in 1826. He was Provost of Edinburgh for a second time in 1825.
He died at the Lees, Berwickshire, aged 70 on 5February 1833.

Family

Marjoribanks married Allison, eldest daughter of William Ramsay, of Barnton, Midlothian on 15April 1791; the couple had four sons and five daughters: