John Dunlop of Dunlop

Sir John Dunlop, 1st Baronet, of Dunlop (1806 – 3 April 1839[1]) was a British Army officer and politician.

Life

The eldest son of Lieutenant-General James Dunlop of Dunlop, he served in the 1st Grenadier Guards.[2][3][4] He was Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock Burghs from 1832 to 1835.[5] Styled Captain John Dunlop of Dunlop at the time of election, he was then created a baronet in 1838.[6][2][3][7]

Dunlop was either a Whig or a Radical. He was succeeded by John Bowring.

Family

Dunlop married:[3]

  1. Charlotte Constance, youngest daughter of Major General Sir Richard Downes Jackson, in 1829.[8]
  2. Harriet, daughter of Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery.

James Dunlop, 2nd Baronet was son of the first marriage.

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
  2. William Anderson (1867). The Scottish nation: or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. A. Fullarton & co. p. 106.
  3. John Debrett (1840). The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G. W. Collen. p. 177.
  4. John Burke (1833). A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 434.
  5. Frank Beattie (11 January 2013). Kilmarnock Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-4456-2906-3.
  6. "No. 19631". The London Gazette. 3 July 1838. p. 1488.
  7. Bulletins and Other State Intelligence. Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London gazette. 1832. p. 709.
  8. La Belle Assemblee, London, January 1830, p. 46.


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