Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet, KCIE was Liberal MP for Roxburghshire from 1906 to 1918. He had previously contested the seat in 1900. He was a businessman on the world stage. For instance in 1901 he gave his address as 34 Lancaster Gate, Middlesex and was funding railway building in North Borneo. He was one of the many Jardine Baronets.
He was the son of William Jardine of Bedford and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1864 and became Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government in 1885, after which he was a Judge of the Bombay High Court. He retired in 1897 and returned to the UK, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours. On his return he went into politics and was elected to Parliament in 1906 as the Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire. He was made a Baronet of Godalming on 20 January 1916.
He died in 1919. He had married Minnie Dunbar, the daughter of Jabez Hogg and was succeeded in turn by his sons Sir John Eric Birdwood Jardine, 2nd Baronet and Sir Colin Arthur Jardine, 3rd Baronet.Memberships
As well as his membership of the Liberal party, Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet was a member of the Bombay Branch of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He had been elected in 1878 and was President of the branch from 1895 until his retirement.Election results
