HALDANE, John (1660-1721), of Gleneagles, Perth.

Family and Education

b. 31 Mar. 1660, 1st s. of Mungo Haldane, MP [S], of Gleneagles by his 1st w. Anne, da. of John Grant of Lurg, Inverness. educ. Aberdeen Univ. (King’s Coll.) 1674. m. (1) settlement 22 Aug. 1677 (with 10,000 marks), Mary (d. 1685), da. of David Drummond, 3rd Ld. Maderty [S], 5s. (3 d.v.p.); (2) Feb. 1691, Helen (d. aft. 1724), da. of Sir Charles Erskine, 1st Bt., MP [S], of Alva, Stirling, sis. of Charles Erskine (Areskine†) and Sir John Erskine, 3rd Bt.*, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.); suc. fa. 1685.

Offices Held

Burgess, Edinburgh 1684; commr. visitation St. Andrews Univ. 1718. Scot. Rec. Soc. lix. 224.

MP [S] Perth 1689–93, 1702–7, Dunbarton 1700–2.

Dir. Co. of Scotland by 1696–aft. 1700, chairman 1700–2; dir. Bank of Scotland 1699. Darien Pprs. (Bannatyne Club, xc), 14, 283–4; C. A. Malcolm, Bank of Scotland, 297.

Commr. justiciary for Highlands [S] 1701–2, public accts. [S] 1703–4, police [S] 1707–d., Equivalent [S] 1707–15, tunnage and poundage [S] July 1715–?July 1716, customs and salt duty [S] July 1716–d. CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 337; Scot. Hist. Soc. xiii. 51; Boyer, Anne Annals, vi. 234; Cal. Treas. Bks. xxix. 342, xxx. 349; P. W. J. Riley, Eng. Ministers and Scotland, 272.

Parlimentarian

HALDANE, John (1660-1721), of Gleneagles, Perth.

Main residence: Gleneagles, Perth.

Notes

Unless otherwise stated, this article is based on the biographical notice in J. A. L. Haldane, Haldanes of Gleneagles, pp. xxviii-xxi, 101-28.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

HALDANE, John (1660-1721)

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Oxford 1644

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