Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Lauder of Newington and Fountainhall, 1st Baronet, was born at Melville Mill and baptised 17 August 1595 at Lasswade church, the son of Andrew Lauder in Melville Mill, Lasswade (d.June 1658) (a grandson of Richard Lauder, younger of that Ilk, d.June 1567), by his first wife Janet (d.April 1617), daughter of David Ramsay, of Hillhead & Polton. Sir John Lauder died 2 April 1692 at Edinburgh and was interred in the Lauder vault within Greyfriars Kirk. John Lauder of Newington matriculated Arms circa 1672 as descended of a second son of Lauder of that Ilk.
On 17 July 1688 he was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, namely Baronet of Fountainhall, East Lothian, but with special remainder to the eldest surviving male heir of his third marriage. This patent was successfully contested and ‘reduced’ (cancelled 19 February 1692) and replaced on 25 January 1690 with a new patent altering the succession to his eldest son, and his heirs, by his second marriage, Sir John Lauder, 2nd Bt., Lord Fountainhall, (1646-1722).
Mentioned in his mother’s Testament, John Lauder was a highly successful merchant-burgess and baillie (1657-61) of Edinburgh, of which city he was Treasurer in 1652. He purchased before 1672 the estate of Newington, Edinburgh, and subsequently, 10 June 1681, the lands of Woodhead and Templehall, with others in Edinburghshire and East Lothian, which were erected by Crown charter into the feudal barony of Fountainhall on 13 August 1681.
He later purchased from his third father-in-law the lands of Idingtoun (now Edrington) on the Whiteadder Water near Chirnside in Berwickshire.
He married firstly, 20 November 1639 at Edinburgh, Margaret (bapt. 17 February 1618 at Edinburgh, died there in 1643) daughter of James Speirs by his wife Catherine Curie. He married secondly 17 July 1643 at Edinburgh, Isabel (bapt. 27 July 1628, Edinburgh; died 2 February 1669, Edinburgh – interred in Greyfriars Kirk) daughter of Alexander Ellis, of Morton Hall and Stanhopmilnes by his wife Elisabeth Edward.
Thirdly Sir John Lauder married, 15 February 1670, Margaret, daughter of George Ramsay of Idingtoun, of the Dalhousie family, by his wife Margaret Seton. (Upon Sir John’s death Margaret Ramsay remarried William Cunninghame, younger of Brounhill, an advocate, and sometime Provost of Ayr.)
Sir John Lauder, 1st Bt., died in his 97th year having had, in all, twenty-four children by his three wives. He was succeeded by the 2nd baronet, John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
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- Monumental Inscriptions in Greyfriars Churchyard, by James Brown, Edinburgh, 1864, pps: 301 - 302, gives the burial vault within the church of the family of Lauder of Lauder, and all who are contained therein.
- Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, London, 8th edition, 1845, and 32nd edition, 1870, under 'Lauder'.
- The Grange of St.Giles, by J.Stewart Smith, Edinburgh, 1898.
- Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, 1665-1676, edited by Donald Crawford, Scottish History Society publication, Edinburgh, 1900, where Sir John gives his ancestry.
- The Complete Baronetage, by G.E.Cockayne, Exeter, 1904, under 'Lauder', pps: 360-363. (GEC is erroneous in his remarks in the genealogical preamble. He cites as his authority a funeral escutcheon he viewed which he states in the footnote on p.360 as being that of the 1st baronet. It is, in fact, the escutcheon of the 2nd baronet, Lord Fountainhall, the Lyon Office not holding one for the 1st baronet).
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page which has further dates on it, not shown above.
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| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baronet (of Fountainhall) 1692–1692 |
Succeeded by John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall |
