John Swinton

(1777-1867)

LBT ID: JoSwint1867	B/BAP: 1777 DIED: 1867-03-08
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (April 1867) 548; James C. Corson, Notes to Scott's Letters, ed. Grierson; thePeerage.com
Educated at Edinburgh High School, he was a magistrate in Berwickshire who took the additional name of Campbell when he inherited the estate of Kimmerghame in 1850.
REFERENCES TO John Swinton: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 53