John Morison, 6th Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy, (1757 – 12 February 1835) was a British politician who sat in the

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as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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, Scotland, between 1827 and 1832. He was the second son of Alexander Morison, 4th

Baron of Bognie Baron of Bognie is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland, historically associated with the Morison family and Bognie Estate in Aberdeenshire. The title was granted in 1635, in the aftermath of the Fire of Frendraught (1630), when the land ...

, and Catharine Duff. During the 1780s and 1790s, John was occupied as a merchant in

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, before acquiring the lands of Auchintoul (

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) in 1799. John married Jane Fraser, daughter of Alexander Fraser (8th of Strichen). He was known primarily as John Morison of Auchintoul, though he did succeed his elder brother as 6th Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy for the final four months of his life.

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* 1750s births 1835 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 {{Scotland-UK-MP-stub