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b. c. 1648, o. s. of John Smollett of Stainflett, by Jean, da. of William Bontine of Ardoch, Perth. educ. Dumbarton g.s.; Glasgow Univ. matric. 1661, MA 1664. m. (1) Jean (d. ?1696), da. of Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple, Dunbarton, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. 4 other ch. d.v.p. ; (2) June 1709, Elizabeth, da. of William Hamilton of Orbiston, Lanark, s.p. suc. fa. to Stainflett 1681; Kntd. 1698. Hist. Scot. Parl. 650; J. Irving, Bk. of Dumbartonshire, i. 290–2, ii. 182–9; J. Irving, Some Acct. Fam. of Smollett, geneal. table; DNB (Smollett, Tobias); D. MacLeod, Historic Families . . . of the Lennox, 154; Recs. Glasgow Univ. (Maitland Club, lxxii), iii. 35, 112; Scot. Rec. Soc. xxvi. 605.
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Dep.-clerk regality of Lennox 1676; burgess, Dumbarton 1681, provost, 1683–6, 1694–6, 1705–17, 1729–31; commr. excise, Dunbarton 1684; burgess, Edinburgh 1689, judge of commissary ct. 1690. Irving, i. 182–4; Dumbarton Burgh Recs. 90, app. list of provosts; Scot. Rec. Soc. lxxiii. 55; Reg. PC Scotland, 1684, p. 140; Extracts Edinburgh Recs. 1689–1701, p. 6.; CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 468; Boyer, Pol. State, xlii. 552.

MP [S] Dumbarton 1685–1707.

Commr. visitation of schs. and colls. [S] 1690; plantation of Kirks [S] 1690; anent fines and forfaultures [S] 1690; justiciary for Highlands [S] 1693, 1701; communication of trade [S] 1698; union with England 1702, 1706; customs and excise [S], 1703–7; Equivalent [S] 1707–19. APS, ix. 164, 169, 201; x. app. 107; xi. app. 145, 162; CSP Dom. 1698, p. 432; 1703–4, p. 408; Boyer, Anne Annals, v. 13; HMC Laing, ii. 100; CJ, xv. 419; Cal. Treas. Bks. xxxi. 342; xxi. 578–9.

Dir. Bank of Scotland 1696. C. A. Malcolm, Bank of Scotland, 301.

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SMOLLETT, Sir James (c.1648-1731), of Stainflett and Bonhill, Dunbarton; and Edinburgh
Main residences: Stainflett and Bonhill, Dunbarton; Edinburgh.
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Commons 1690-1715
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SMOLLETT, Sir James (c.1648-1731)

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