John Stein (13 September 1769 – 1814) was a Scottish banker, distiller and politician.
[1] His father, who died in Riga in 1804, ran a distillery at Kennetpans, in partnership with his uncles, John and Robert Stein, which was ruined by legislation in 1788 which excluded it from the London market.
[2] Stein obtained an exclusive licence to establish a porter brewery in St. Petersburg, which deprived Barclay, Perkins & Co. of Southwark of a "lively trade.
Through his daughter Grace, he was a grandfather of Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet, the actor,[3] and Alexina Harriet Don (wife of Sir Frederick Milbank, 1st Baronet, son of Mark Milbank, MP for Camelford, and a grandson the 1st Duke of Cleveland).
[3] Through his youngest daughter Katherine, he was a great-grandfather of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.