John Minet Fector (28 March 1812 – 24 February 1868) was an English banker and politician. From 1848 he was called John Minet Laurie.

Life

He was born on 28 March 1812, the eldest son of John Minet Fector (died 1821), and his wife Anne Wortley Montagu Laurie, daughter of

Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet (c. 1738 – 1804) was a Scottish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1804. Laurie was the only son of Sir Robert Laurie, 4th Baronet and his wife Christian Erskine, daughter of Cha ...

. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1820. In 1833 Fector took control of the family bank in

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, J. Minet Fector & Co.; some years later it traded as Fector & Co. In 1835 he was elected Member of Parliament for Dover, as a Tory with moderate reforming ambitions. He lost his seat in 1837, to the Whig

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. He was elected again, for , in 1838. In 1841 he did not contest the seat. In 1842 he sold Fector & Co. to the

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. Fector added to the house and grounds of Kearsney Abbey, built on the Kearsney Manor estate by his father. He later sold it, around 1845. The building was mostly demolished in 1959. In 1848 his uncle

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died unmarried, and Fector took the surname Laurie. There also descended to him the Laurie seat in Scotland, Maxwelton House in Glencairn. He died Middlesex in February 1868 at the age of 55.

Family

Fector married in 1841 Isabella Murray, daughter of General Augustus William Murray. There were no children of the marriage. His sister Charlotte married Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet and was mother of

Emilius Bayley Sir John Robert Laurie Emilius Bayley, 3rd Baronet (16 May 1823 – 4 December 1917), later Sir Emilius Laurie, was an English clergyman, baronet and amateur cricketer. He was generally known by his middle-name Emilius and changed his surname to ...

. The Fector family survived in this line.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fector, John Minet 1812 births 1868 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bankers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Dover UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 19th-century English businesspeople