John Campbell Colquhoun (23 January 1803 – 17 April 1870) was a Scottish writer and politician.

Life

Colquhoun was born in

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on 23 January 1803, son of Archibald Colquhoun and Mary Ann, daughter of the Rev. William Erskine, episcopalian minister at

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. He was educated at

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, and

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. In 1832 Colquhoun is listed as living at 10 Melville Street in the west end of Edinburgh, then newly built. In the same year he was elected Member of Parliament for

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, and in 1837 for Kilmarnock Burghs. He unsuccessfully contested the Kilmarnock burghs in July 1841, however was elected in July 1842 as a member for

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, which he continued to represent until the dissolution of 1847, when he retired from reasons of health. A wealthy Conservative and evangelical, Colquhoun served as president of the Glasgow Society. He was chairman of the general committee of the National Club, the Church of England Education Society, and the Irish Church Mission to Roman Catholics. Disraeli gave a pen-portrait of him (Reminiscences, ed. H.M. and M. Swartz, 1975, pp. 31–2). Colquhoun died 17 April 1870 and was buried in

Dean Cemetery The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on ...

near Edinburgh.

Works

Colquhoun wrote political and religious pamphlets on questions of the day in Scotland and Ireland. He was also the author of: *''Isis Revelata: An Inquiry into the Origin, Progress and Present State of Animal Magnetism'', 1836; *''Short Sketches of some Notable Lives'', 1855; *''Life in Italy and France in the Olden Time'', 1858; *''Scattered Leaves of Biography'', 1864; *''William Wilberforce, his Friends and his Times'', 1866, 2nd edit. 1867; and *''Memorials of Henrietta Maria Colquhoun'', 1870.

Family

In 1827 Colquhoun married Henrietta Maria, daughter of

Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford (8 April 1775 – 4 July 1825) was a British peer. He was the son of Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford and Mary Mann of Lilford Hall. He succeeded his father as Baron Lilford in 1800. He was educated at Eton College ...

. They had two sons.

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