Sir John Pirie, 1st Baronet (1781 – 26 February 1851), was a British shipbroker and Lord Mayor of London.
[1] In the 1830s he started to uphold Wakefield's principles and became a founding director, and one of the largest financiers, of the South Australian Company.
[4] One of the first three ships despatched in 1836 to found the new colony of South Australia was the 105-ton two-masted schooner named John Pirie.
He was created a baronet, of Camberwell in the County of Surrey, in 1842 on his retirement as Lord Mayor.
[5] Pirie had no children and died at Champion Hill, Camberwell on 26 February 1851.