Sir John George Smyth Kinloch, 2nd Baronet (8 January 1849 – 20 May 1910) was a Scottish

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politician from

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. Kinloch was educated at

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. On his 29th birthday, he married Jessie Montgomerie Lumsden. They had three sons and three daughters. He succeeded as

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in 1881. He was elected

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for East Perthshire in a by-election in 1889, and re-elected in the

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and

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

general elections. In early January 1903 he indicated he did not intend to seek re-election, and the following month he resigned by becoming

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* Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies 1849 births 1910 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Scottish Liberal Party MPs {{UK-baronet-stub