Sir John Houston, 3rd Baronet (or Houstoun; died 1722), of Houstoun, Renfrew, and Glasgow, Lanarkshire, was a Scottish Tory politician who sat in the

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between 1708 and 1715. He was a Jacobite.

Biography

Houston was the only son of

Sir John Houston, 2nd Baronet Sir John Houstoun of that Ilk, 2nd Baronet (or Houston; died December 1717) was a member of the Parliament of Scotland for Renfrewshire from 1685 to 1686 and 1702 to 1707 and for Stirlingshire Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling, gd, Si ...

, of

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, and his wife Anne Drummond, daughter of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort. He was educated at Glasgow. In 1717, he succeeded his father to the

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in 1717. Houston was elected as

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for

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at a by-election on 22 December 1708. He was returned again at the 1710 British general election. At the 1713 British general election he was defeated in the poll, but was seated on petition on 8 April 1714 He was a Commissary of Glasgow by 1714. .D. W. Hayton
HOUSTOUN (HOUSTON), John (d. 1722), of Houstoun, Renfrew, and Glasgow, Lanark.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1690-1715'' (2002).

Private life

Houstoun married in 1713, Margaret Schaw, the daughter of Sir John Schaw, 2nd Bt., of Greenock, Renfrew and had a son and two daughters. He died in on 27 January 1722 and was succeeded by his son.

References

1722 deaths People from Renfrewshire Alumni of the University of Glasgow Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Scottish Jacobites Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1708–1710 British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 {{Scotland-GreatBritain-MP-stub