John Coulter (c.1680–1747) was an 18th-century Scottish sugar and tobacco merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1736 to 1738.
[1] He was the son of James Coulter (d.1708) a prominent Glasgow merchant originally from Dumfriesshire.
When Coulter succeeded Andrew Ramsay as Lord Provost in 1736 the population of the city was just under 15,000 people.
[6] Robert sold it to a distant cousin William Lockhart MP for Lanarkshire.
[7] His brother Lawrence (Lawrie) Coulter was portrayed by John Kay in 1793.