Francis Montgomerie

1728) of Giffen, Ayr was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1689 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1710 .

[2] As one of the main shareholders of the Company of Scotland (1695) he lost a small fortune in their ill-advised Darien scheme which planned to form a Scottish colony in Panama.

This partially offest the issue that he was not compensated for the loss of his senior roles in the Scottish Parliament.

Montgomerie married her under a financially advantageous contract dated 10 October 1673 which incurred a legal dispute when she died a year later in 1674.

The initial contract allowed him £10,000 of his wife's estate (£2.4 million in 2022 terms) plus an annual annuity of £600.