Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet

Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet (27 September 1844 – 26 April 1919) 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 (the heart of London) 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 (but originally of Dumfriesshire, Scotland) 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. 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 (Baronet Jardine of Godalming) in 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.

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.

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