John Cornelius Fordyce (1735–1809) was

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for

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from 1796 to 1802, and for

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from 1802 to 5 April 1803. He was the son of Thomas Fordyce of Ayton, an Edinburgh lawyer and Elizabeth Whitefoord, daughter of Adam Whitefoord, 1st Baronet. Fordyce became a banker and by the age of 24 was a Director of the Royal Bank. His own bank, Fordyce, Malcolm and Co., collapsed in 1772. He entered

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in 1796, sitting for New Romney until 1802 and then Berwick-Upon-Tweed until 1803. He married Catharine, the daughter of

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of Monreith, Wigtown, and with her had at least two sons and four daughters. One of their daughters, Magdalen, married William Blair, who went on to become the MP for Ayrshire.

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