George Kinnaird, 7th Lord Kinnaird (1754–1805) was a Scottish aristocrat, virtuoso, and banker. He was a

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in 1787.

Life

He was the son of Charles Kinnaird, 6th Lord Kinnaird and Barbara Johnstone, daughter of Sir James Johnstone, bart. He succeeded his father in 1767, and entered

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in 1769, graduating M.A. in 1771. Kinnaird was partner in the banking firm of Ransom, Morland and Hammersley of Pall Mall, London; the MP William Morland was one of the partners, as was

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MP. Kinnaird fell out with the

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, one of the bank's customers, who moved his business to Coutts & Co. He was also chairman of the London Fire Office. With Morland, Kinnaird helped set up the Dundee New Bank in 1802. Henry Boase as managing partner of the Pall Mall bank went to

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to reconstruct it, in 1804. Rubens - Judgement of Paris

Kinnaird was known as an art collector. The collection he founded was based on purchases from the

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, dispersed in 1792, along with other works such as Parmigianino's ''

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''. The dealer Thomas Moore Slade imported Northern European works for Kinnaird, Hammersley and Morland. Kinnaird's collection was subsequently housed at, and named for,

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; and was sold in 1948. In politics Kinnaird acted as treasurer to the

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, which he joined in 1792 with

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and

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.historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Kinnaird, Hon. Charles (1780–1826), of Rossie Priory, Perth.''
/ref> Kinnaird was elected a

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in 1784. He died on 11 October 1805, in

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Family

Kinnaird married Elizabeth, daughter of Griffin Ransom. He was succeeded by their second son Charles. Their fifth son Douglas James William was an MP. The other sons and the daughters were: *(1) George William Ransom, died 1779; *(3) Henry, died 1784; *(4) Edward Griffin, died 1803; *(6) Frederick John Hay, died 1814; and *Eliza, married Edward Plunkett, 14th Baron Dunsany; *Georgiana Mary Anne, married

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; *Laura Margaretta, died 1810; *Amelia Barbara, died 1795.

Notes

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