Patrick Warrender

Sir Patrick Warrender of Lochend, 3rd Baronet (7 March 1731 – 14 June 1799)[1] was a Scottish soldier and politician.

Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh – the Warrenders' Edinburgh house

He was a younger, but oldest surviving, son of Sir John Warrender, 2nd Baronet and his wife Henrietta Johnston, daughter of Sir Patrick Johnston MP, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.[2] In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] Warrender served with the Royal Horse Guards and fought in the Battle of Minden in 1759. Eventually he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 11th Regiment of Dragoons.

Warrender was Member of Parliament (MP) for Haddington Burghs from 1768 until 1774.[4] Between 1771 and 1791, he was King's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer.[3]

In 1780, Warrender married Helen Blair.[5] They had a daughter and two sons, George and John, who succeeded to the baronetcy successively.[5]

References
  1. "WARRENDER, Patrick (1731–99), of Lochend, Haddington". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. III. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 50.
  3. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 589.
  4. "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons. Haddington Burghs". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 416.


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