Sir Francis Kinloch, 1st Baronet


Sir Francis Kinloch, 1st Baronet, of Gilmerton, was a seventeenth-century Scottish politician.

Biography

Francis Kinloch was the son of Andrew Kinloch, a merchant of Rochelle. He purchased the Haddingtonshire estates of Gilmerton, Athelstaneford and Markle, having a charter of Markle on 24 July 1664. He served as a commissioner of supply, and was Lord Provost of Edinburgh before 1674. He also represented Edinburgh within the Scottish Parliament in the vote on the Convention of the Estates in 1678, and on 16 September 1686 was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.
Kinloch was married to Magdalen Macmath of Newbyres. She died aged fifty-nine on 16 November 1674 and was buried in the Greyfriars Kirkyard. He was buried there on 17 December 1691. Their only son Francis succeeded to the baronetcy.