Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet

Sir John Anstruther, c. 1809

Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet and 1st Baronet PC (27 March 1753 – 26 January 1811) was a Scottish politician.

The second son of Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Baronet, he was knighted in 1797, raised to the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1798,[1] and also succeeded as 4th Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on the death of his elder brother, Philip, in 1808.[2]

He served as Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs, in Fife, from 1783 to 1790, 1796–1797 and 1806–1811, and for Cockermouth, in Cumberland, from 1790 to 1796. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1806.

  1. ^ "No. 15014". The London Gazette. 8 May 1798. p. 387.
  2. ^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/587. Retrieved 5 March 2007. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Anstruther, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.