Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 1st Baronet (died 1722) was a Scottish politician, created a

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on 24 March 1679. Sir John was the eldest son of

John Clerk of Penicuik John Clerk of Penicuik (1611–1674) was a Scottish merchant noted for maintaining a comprehensive archive of family papers, now held by the National Archives of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. Background Born in Montrose, he wa ...

and Mary, daughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum. From 1690 until 1702 he was MP for Edinburghshire (Lothian) in the Scottish Parliament. In 1700, he acquired the lands and barony of Leswade, near Edinburgh.Burke
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/ref> He served as a shire commissioner in the

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for

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from 1690 to 1702. He married twice. With his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Henderson, of Elrington, he had three sons and three daughters including Barbara. His son-in-law, Barbara's second husband, Dr. William Arthur, became embroiled in the

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. With his second wife, Christian, daughter of the Reverend James Kilpatrick, he had four sons and four daughters. He died in 1722, and was succeeded by his eldest son

Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet (1676–1755) was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer. He was Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the pre-eminent learned society of the Scottish Enlightenment. He w ...

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*John Burke (1832) ''A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire'', Volume 1, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, ;Attribution * Year of birth unknown 1722 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1689–1702 {{Scotland-pre1707-MP-stub

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