John Marjoribanks

Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet (13 January 1763 – 5 February 1833) was a Scottish MP and twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

He was born in Bordeaux, France on 13 January 1763, the eldest son of Edward Marjoribanks, of Hallyards and Lees (near Coldstream), a prominent wine merchant in Bordeaux,[1] and Grizel Stewart, daughter of Archibald Stewart[2] who was Lord Provost and MP for Edinburgh during the Jacobite rising of 1745, and then tried for high treason and acquitted.

[3] His family returned to Scotland from Bordeaux in 1770/1771 when the father inherited the estate of Lees.

[5] Marjoribanks was a captain in the Coldstream Guards, became MP for Buteshire at the general election of 1812 and in 1814 served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

[4] Marjoribanks married Allison, eldest daughter of William Ramsay, of Barnton House, west of Edinburgh, on 15 April 1791; the couple had four sons and five daughters: This article about a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (since 1801), for a Scottish constituency is a stub.