MONTGOMERIE, John I (d. 1725), of Wrae, Linlithgow.

Family and Education

5th s. of George Montgomerie of Broomlands, ?Ayr. educ. w.s. 1687. m. (1) 2 Feb. 1689, Penelope, da. of Sir Robert Barclay of Perceton, Ayr; at least 1s. (2) Sept. 1696, Janet, da. of Thomas Gray, merchant, of Edinburgh. Hist. Scot. Parl. ii. 509; APS, ix. 140; xi. 142; Scot. Rec. Soc. xxvii. 487; lxii. 145; W. Forbes, Jnl. of Session (1714), 715.

Offices Held

MP [S] Linlithgowshire 1704–7.

Dir. Bank of Scotland 1706. C. A. Malcolm, Bank of Scotland, 299; SRO, Hay of Belton mss GD73/1/42b, stockholders in Bank of Scotland, 1719.

Burgess, Edinburgh 1706.

Commr. excise [S] 1707– Mar. 1709; jt. under-sec. of state [S] Feb. 1709–?1711. Cal. Treas. Bks. xxi. 261, 282, 402; xxiii. 108, 175; NLS, Advocates’ mss, Wodrow pprs. letters Quarto 5, f. 24; SRO, Montrose mss GD220/5/196/1, John Bruce* to Montrose, 8 Feb. 1709.

Parlimentarian

MONTGOMERIE, John I (d. 1725), of Wrae, Linlithgow.

Main residence: Wrae, Linlithgow.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

MONTGOMERIE, John I (d. 1725)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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