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Dates 1741-47
Location London
Vocation Army officer and politician
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source History of Parliament Online

Professional soldier who entered politics. Elected MP for Haddingtonshire (1741) and attached himself to Lord Carteret. Supported the new Administration after Walpole's fall. Voted for Hanoverians (1746) and classed as a "Granville". Reported to have gone mad (1746) and did not seek re-election. Continued involvement in army being appointed an aide-de-camp to the king (1749) and given a regiment (1753). Send to America (1757) but put under house arrest for speaking out against military. Court-martialed, but died before verdict announced (1760).