Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet and 1st Baronet (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, and also succeeded as 4th Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on the death of his elder brother, Philip, in 1808.^[1]

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

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1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved on 2007-03-05. 

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir John Anstruther, Bt	Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs 1783-1790	Succeeded by Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther
Preceded by Humphrey Senhouse James Clarke Satterthwaite	Member of Parliament for Cockermouth withJohn Baynes Garforth 1790-1796	Succeeded by Edward Burrow John Baynes Garforth
Preceded by William Dundas	Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs 1796-1797	Succeeded by Alexander Campbell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alexander Campbell	Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs 1806-1811	Succeeded by Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther
Baronetage of Great Britain
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Preceded by (new creation)	Baronet (of Anstruther 1798) 1798–1811	Succeeded by John Carmichael-Anstruther
Preceded by Philip Anstruther-Paterson	Baronet (of Anstruther 1700) 1808–1811