Family and Education
bap. 9 Sept. 1655, 4th but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, Edinburgh, Ld. Wariston SCJ and in Cromwellian Parl., by 2nd w. Helen, da. of Alexander Hay, Lord Fosterseat. educ. Utrecht; travelled abroad. m. (1) bef. 1693, 1s. d.v.p. (2) 18 June 1696 (with £20,000), Catherine, da. of John, 2nd Baron Poulett s.p. (3) by Oct. 1716, Lucy, 1s. 1da., 3 other ch. (). DNB; Wariston Diary (Scot. Hist. Soc. ser. 1, xxvi), 9; Hist. Parl. Scot. 382–3; Boyer, Pol. State, liii. 540, 544; Carstares, State Pprs. 155–6; Misc. Gen. et Her. ser. 5, iii. 92–95; IGI, Wilts.; Collins, Peerage, iv. 12; Centre Kentish Stud. Stanhope mss U1590/059/5, Robert Yard* to Alexander Stanhope, 16 June 1696; HMC Polwarth, i. 112; PCC 110 Wake.
Offices Held
Envoy extraordinary to Prussia, 1690–2; sec. of state [S] 1692–6; commr. of exchequer [S], 1692–6, 1704–7; PC [S], 1692, 1704; ld. clerk register [S] 1704–5.
Burgess, Edinburgh 1692; freeman, Bath 1693.
Main residence: Orleans House, Twickenham, Mdx.
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Commons 1690-1715
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JOHNSTON, James (1655-1737)
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