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 Member of Parliament for

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in a by-election in 1889, and re-elected in the

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1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

and

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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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* 1849 births 1910 deaths Nobility from Perth and Kinross Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies 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