Constituency : Dundee 1857-74
Sir John was the 9th Baronet of Inverquharity.
He was a local notable rather than a national figure, a philanthropist who set up an institution for mentally disabled children in Dundee and then granted it to the city and chaired several public boards.
He retired at the 1874 election and died in 1890 at the age of 87. He then had the dubious honour of being celebrated in a poem by the city's infamously bad poet William McGonagall.
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