John Kinloch or Killoch was keeper of the royal tennis courts, a post master and stable owner in 16th-century Edinburgh and the proprietor of house used for lodgings and banquets.
The ambassador was entertained at Holyrood Palace by Mary, Queen of Scots in "maskrie and mumschance" during which her ladies were dressed in men's apparel.
[4] One of Kinloch's servants, Katherine Lenton, was accused of "harlotry" during the French ambassador's visit and attracted the attention of the Kirk Session and was banished from the Canongate.
[5] The ambassador of Savoy, Jean, Count de Brienne, arrived in Edinburgh on 2 November 1566 and was lodged in Henry Kinloch's house in the Canongate.
[8] In the 17th-century Alexander Peiris offered lodgings and built or rebuilt a tennis court near Holyrood Palace in 1623,[9] his guests included Anne Halkett, and he may have taken over the Kinloch's establishment or had a similar business.
[11] On 17 April 1582 James VI made John Killoch and Robert Schaw keepers of the royal tennis courts, called "caichpollis", throughout Scotland.
[16] On 6 May 1593 the Duke of Lennox and 15 friends subscribed to a frivolous legal document swearing to abstain from wearing gold and silver trimmings on their clothes for a year, and defaulters were to pay for a banquet for all the signatories at John Killoch's house.
In May 1603 Lucy Russell and Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare came to Scotland from Berwick ahead of a party of gentlewomen appointed by the English Privy Council, and got audiences with the Anne of Denmark.
He left his own horse unattended tied to a cart in the palace yard and went to speak to the Master of the King's Carriage, William Murray, husband of the noted baker and poet Christian Lindsay.
He returned to find the horse gone and spent £12 asking locals who the thief, a man with a red coat was, to learn it was the postmaster Henry Kinloch and his servant John Forres.