John Stein (MP)
John Stein (13 September 1769 – 1814) was a Scottish banker, distiller and politician.
Early life[edit]
Stein was born on 13 September 1769 in Clackmannan, Scotland. He was the son of James Stein of Kilbagie (1740–1804), and Katharine (née Buchanan) Stein (1750–1828), a daughter of John Buchanan of Alloa, Clackmannan. His sister, Anne Stein, married Gen. Sir Alexander Duff (parents of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife and George Skene Duff).[1] His father, who died in Riga in 1804, ran a distillery at Kennetpans, in partnership with his uncles, John and Robert Stein, which was ruined by legislation in 1788 which excluded it from the London market.[2]
Career[edit]
In 1796, Stein was returned to Parliament as a guest of Sir Robert Clayton, who usually returned Whigs. There is no record of a speech by him in the House and he did not seek re-election in 1802.[2]
Stein obtained an exclusive licence to establish a porter brewery in St. Petersburg, which deprived Barclay, Perkins & Co. of Southwark of a "lively trade."[2]
Personal life[edit]
On 29 January 1802, Stein was married to Grace Bushby (1783–1822), a daughter of John Bushby of Tinwald Downs, Dumfries, and Grizzel (née Maitland) Bushby. In Edinbrugh, they resided at 37 Heriot Row.[3] Together, they were the parents of:
- James Stein (1802–1877), who married Janet Beattie in 1825.[4]
- Grace Jane Stein (1804–1878), who married, as his second wife, Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet, MP for Roxburghshire, in 1824.[4] After his death in 1826, she married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Maxwell Wallace.[5]
- Katherine Mary Stein (1813–1873), who married George Lane-Fox of Bowcliffe Hall, High Sheriff of Leitrim, a son of George Lane-Fox, MP for Beverley.[6]
Stein died in 1814 in Edinburgh.
Descendants[edit]
Through his daughter Grace, he was a grandfather of Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet, the actor,[3] and Alexina Harriet Don (wife of Sir Frederick Milbank, 1st Baronet, son of Mark Milbank, MP for Camelford, and a grandson the 1st Duke of Cleveland).[3]
Through his youngest daughter Katherine, he was a great-grandfather of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or: Royal Manual of the Titled & Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. p. 225. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Murphy, Brian; Thorne, R. G. "STEIN, John (b.1769), of Canonmills, Edinburgh". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Escott, Margaret. "DON, Sir Alexander, 6th bt. (?1780-1826), of Newton Don, Berwick". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684.
- ^ Antonella Braida, Wallace , Grace Jane, Lady Wallace (1804–1878), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 600. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "No. 33963". The London Gazette. 25 July 1933. p. 4961.