Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther, 5th Baronet (1 June 1785 – 28 January 1818) was a British

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Anstruther-Easter Burghs between 1811 and 1818

Son of Sir John Anstruther of that Ilk, 4th and 1st Bt. (1753–1811) and Maria Isabella Brice, he was educated at Eton

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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; admitted to Lincoln's Inn

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in 1806.

Succeeded to the title of 5th and 2nd Baronet Anstruther, Lanarkshire on 26 January 1811,
He inherited the estates and baronetcy of Carmichael and Westraw, Lanarkshire, on the death of his cousin, Andrew Carmichael, 6th Earl of Hyndford (18 April 1817).