Sir Andrew Lauder, 5th Baronet

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Sir Andrew Lauder of Fountainhall, 5th Baronet (8 May 1702 – 6 March 1769) succeeded to the baronetcy in 1730 upon the death of his elder brother Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet. On 1 August 1737 he was made an honorary Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder, and also of Musselburgh on 8 June 1739.

In 1731 he married a future heiress, Isabel (1716-1758) daughter of Sir William Leslie Dick (d.1757) 3rd feudal baron of Grange, Edinburgh, who was in a direct descent from the Royal House of Plantagenet.

By his wife, Isabel, Sir Andrew Lauder had eighteen children: 11 boys and 7 girls. Of his sons, William (1739-1763) was an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, dying in Calcutta. Another son, John (1741-1757) was in the navy and died in Spain.

Sir Andrew is interred in the Lauder vault within Greyfriars Kirk and was succeeded by his son, Sir Andrew Dick-Lauder, 6th Baronet.

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James Brown (1864). Monumental Inscriptions in Greyfriars Churchyard, 301 - 302. gives the burial vault within the church of the family of Lauder of Lauder, and all who are contained therein.
J.Stewart Smith (1898). The Grange of St.Giles.
G.E.Cockayne (1904). The Complete Baronetage, vol.IV, 361.
List of the Officers of the Bengal Army 1758 - 1834, by Major V C P Hodson, 1945, vol.3.