| Authorised form of name | Clerk; Sir; John (1676 - 1755) |
| Dates | 1676 - 1755 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 08 November 1676 |
| Date of death | 04 October 1755 |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Activity | Career:
Practised at the Scottish Bar; MP for Whithorn in the Scottish Parliament (1702-1707), then in the British Parliament; Member of the Commission for the Union of Scotland and England (1707); Judge of the Scottish Court of Exchequer (1708); made a collection of antiquities; friend of Roger Gale (FRS 1717)
Memberships:
FSA (1725)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/10/1729 |
| Relationships | Son of Sir John Clerk, Bart, of Penicuik and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Henderson of Elvington; succeeded his father as 2nd Bart (1722)
Married: 1) Margaret, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd Earl of Galloway; 2) Janet, daughter of Sir John Inglis of Cramond, Bart; grandfather of Sir George Clerk (FRS 1819); great-grandfather of Henry Clerk (FRS 1848) and of James Clerk Maxwell (FRS 1861) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1755), p.476.
Notes:
Proposed by Roger Gale; James Theobald; Sir Hans Sloane. DNB gives year of birth as 1684. |
| Code | NA7073 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CLP/8ii/74 | Paper, 'An account of the observations of the late solar eclipse made at Edinborough [Edinburgh] on 18 February 1737' by Sir John Clerk | [1737] |
| CLP/22ii/47 | Paper, Account of an extract of John Clerk's dissertation 'De Stylis Veterum et diversis Chartarum generibus [Concerning the pen of the ancients and the diverse origins of paper]' by Roger Gale | 1731 |