FORDYCE, John (1735-1809), of Ayton, Berwick.
Family and Education
b. 1735, s. of Thomas Fordyce of Ayton by 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Adam Whitefoord, 1st Bt., of Blairquhan, Ayr. m. 28 Jan. 1767, Catharine, da. of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Bt., of Monreith, Wigtown, 2s. 4da. at least. suc. fa. 1755.
Offices Held
Dir. Bank of Scotland 1759 – 61; receiver-gen. of crown land rents and land tax [S] 1766 – 83; sec. to commrs. for inquiring into crown lands 1786 – 87, commr. 1787 – 93; surveyor-gen. of crown lands 1793 – d.; commr. for liquidating the Prince of Wales’s debts 1795 – d.; commr. of naval revision 1804.
Capt. Ayton vols. 1798.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Ayton, Berwick.
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
FORDYCE, John (1735-1809)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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