Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet GCVO DSO* TD PC JP DL MP (27 May 1876 – 30 March 1940) was a Scottish Unionist politician.

He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 7 February 1900,[2] and served in South Africa with the 20th (Fife and Forfarshire Light Horse) Company of the 6th Battalion.

His letters from the Boer War were published in 1996 under the title "Clearly My Duty" by his son, Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet.

He again served in World War I with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, where he was again mentioned in despatches and awarded the DSO with bar.

[citation needed] Later in his career he served as Minister of Shipping during the early months of British involvement in the Second World War but died in office of a heart attack in London on 30 March 1940,[7][8] Gilmour was Master of the Fife Fox Hounds, 1902–1906, and a Member of Fife County Council 1901–1910.

His eldest daughter, Dame Anne Margaret Bryans DBE DStJ, worked for the British Red Cross Society and served as vice-chairman of the executive committee from 1964 to 1976, in addition to holding positions in the governorship of many hospitals in the United Kingdom.