Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Baronet (27 December 1718 – 4 July 1799) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 politician.

He served as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Anstruther Burghs from 1766–1774, 1780–1783 and 1790–1793.

He succeeded his father as a Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 27 September 1753.
He married Janet Fall, Queen of the Gypsies, second daughter of James Fall

James Fall

Captain James Fall , MP for Haddington Burghs , in Scotland. One of four brothers who built a mercantile empire centred on Dunbar, he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh merchant becoming Burgess and Guild brother there in 1675. As MP he would probably be equally as well described as representing the...

, on 4 October, 1750.