Sir George Warrender, 1st Baronet (c. 1658 – 4 March 1721) of

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and

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was a Scottish merchant and politician who sat in the

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from 1715 to 1722. Bruntsfield House 1897

Warrender was the only son of George Warrender and his wife Margaret Cunninghame. His father died when he was an infant. He became a dealer of foreign trade at Edinburgh. He prospered and in 1675 purchased

s, and then adjacent properties, and eventually acquired Lochend. He married Margaret Lawrie daughter of Thomas Lawrie, a merchant of Edinburgh, on 13 April 1680. She died in 1699 and was buried on 2 June 1699. Six months later he married by proclamation dated 10 December 1699, Grissel Blair, daughter of Hugh Blair, merchant of Edinburgh. In 1705 he was member of a syndicate that was assigned farm of the customs and foreign excise of Scotland for three years. He was

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for the year 1713 to 1714. Warrender was a Whig, having been fined as a dissenter under James II, and supported the

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. As Lord Provost, he had proclaimed

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's accession at Edinburgh. He was elected as Whig member of parliament (MP) for

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at the 1715 general election and was created a Baronet, of Lochend, in the County of Haddington on 2 June 1715. In Parliament he voted with the Government in every recorded division. At the start of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, he was in London but went to Scotland in August, judging it was more important for him to be at Edinburgh at the time than in Westminster. In 1716 he applied for compensation for his expenses and loss of trade during the rebellion. He supported the Government with regard an opposition motion of 4 June 1717, censuring Argyll's rival, Lord Cadogan but subsequently was fearful or the temper of the city as a result of his behavior in the House of Commons. Warrender died at London on 4 March 1721, a year before the next general election, and was buried at

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. He had a son and daughter by his first wife, and three sons and five daughters by his second wife. He was succeeded in the

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by his eldest son John.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warrender, George, 1st Baronet 1680s births 1722 deaths Nobility from Edinburgh Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Lord provosts of Edinburgh Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1715–1722 Burials at Bunhill Fields