Robert Jardine (politician)

Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet (24 May 1825 – 17 February 1905) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician.

Jardine was born at Edinburgh the son of David Jardine of Muir House, Lockerbie, Dumfries and his wife Rachel Johnstone.

In 1865 he became head of Jardine, Matheson and Co., one of the largest Far East trading houses based in Hong Kong.

[1] At the general election in July 1865, Jardine was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashburton in Devon[2] where his uncle William Jardine had been an earlier MP.

Jardine married Margaret Seton Hamilton, daughter of John Buchanan Hamilton, and sister and heiress of John Hamilton-Buchanan, Chief of Clan Buchanan.