Educated at Eton and Glasgow University, he was a friend of Horace Walpole and David Hume, an inmate of Holland House, and an MP for Old Sarum, Renfrewshire, and Glasgow.

REFERENCES TO John Craufurd of Auchinames [The Fish]:

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 21 April 1810 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)